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CODE  OF  RULES 

GOVERNING     THE     CONDITION     OF,     AND 
REPAIRS    TO,    FREIGHT    CARS 

FOR  THE 

IBTERCHANGE  OF  TRAFFIC, 

ADOPTED   BY  THE 

MASTER  CAR  BUILDERS'  ASSOCIATION 


REVISED  AT 


Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  June,  1911. 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  ASSOCIATION, 
OLD  COLONY  BUILDING,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

1911. 


CODE  OF   RULES 

Governing  the   Condition   of,   and    Repairs 

to,  Freight  Cars  for  the  Interchange 

of  Traffic. 


PREFACE. 

These  rules  make  car  owners  responsible 
for,  and  therefore  chargeable  with,  the  re- 
pairs to  their  cars  necessitated  by  ordinary 
wear  and  tear  in  fair  service,  so  that  defect 
cards  will  not  be  required  for  any  defects 
thus  arising. 

Railroad  companies  handling  cars  are 
responsible  for  damage  done  to  any  car  by 
unfair  usage,  .derailment  or  ,  accident,  and 
for  improper,  ^  jepairs  /matte-  by;  them,  and 
they  must  make  proper  fepairg'at  their  own 
expenseysqr  ,i1ss*ie  jdfcfecf  cam  covering  all 
such  damage  or  improper  •  repairs.' 

Inspection  of  freight  cars  for  interchange 
and  method  of  loading  will  be  in  accordance 
with  this  Code  of  Rules  and  the  Rules  for 
Loading  Materials,  issued  by  this  Associa- 
tion. 


CARE  OF  FOREIGN  FREIGHT  CARS. 
RULE  i.     Each   railway   company   shall   give 
to  foreign  cars,  while  on  its  line,  the  same  care 
as  to  oiling,  packing,  inspection  and  adjusting 
brakes,  that  it  gives  to  its  own  cars. 


INTERCHANGING  FRZIGHI  CARS. 

•  RULE  2.  No  car  having  defects  constituting 
a  violation  of  the  law  should  be  offered  in 
interchange. 

Cars  having  defects  for  which  delivering 
company  is  responsible  must  be  properly 
carded  when  offered  in  interchange. 

Empty  cars  offered  in  interchange  must  be 
accepted  if  in  safe  and  serviceable  condition, 
the  receiving  road  to  be  the  judge  in  cases 
not  provided  for  in  Rules  3  and  4  and  32  to 
88,  inclusive. 

Owners  must  receive  their  own  cars  when 
offered  home,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  these 
rules. 

Loaded  cars  offered  in  interchange  must  be 
accepted,  except  that  receiving  line  may  reject 
leaking  tank  cars  and  cars  not  loaded  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  rules  for  loading  materials, 
A.  R.  A.  Car  Service  Rule  15  to  apply  (see 
page  88)  when  transfer  or  rearrangement  of 
load  is  necessary. 

When  it  becomes  necessary  to  transfer  load, 
such  car,  when  empty,  may  be  returned  to  the 
delivering  line. 

In  case  cars  are  rejected  by  the  receiving 
road  and  returned  to  the  delivering  company, 
all  of  the  defects  objected  to  must  be  desig- 
nated on  a  return  card  of  the  form  shown  on 
page  79,  filled  in  with  ink  or  black  indelible 
pencil,  and  placed  on  car  adjacent  to  the  desti- 
nation card.  251724 


USE  o^'  DEFECI,  REF/IR  AND  JOINT   EVIDENCE 
CARDS. 


RULE  3.  If  a  car  has  defects  for  which  the 
owners  are  not  responsible,  the  receiving  line 
shall  require  that  a  defect  card  be  securely 
attached  to  the  car,  as  per  Rule  14. 

Defect  cards  shall  not  be  required  for  any 
damage  that  is  so  slight  that  no  repairs  are 
necessary. 

RULE  4.  Defect  cards  shall  not  be  required 
for  defects  for  which  owners  are  responsible, 
except  for  missing  material  on  cars  offered  in 
interchange,  as  provided  for  in  Rules  33,  46, 
55  and  64,  or  in  cases  of  defective  air-brake 
parts,  as  specified  in  Rule  56.  Defect  cards 
shall  not  be  required  of  the  delivering  road 
for  improper  repairs  that  were  not  made  by 
it,  with  the  exception  of  the  cases  provided 
for  in  Rules  34,  35,  58,  66  and  70. 

RUL*E  5.  Defect  cards  shall  be  of  the  form 
shown  on  page  79.  They  should  be  of  card- 
board, printed  in  red  ink  on  both  sides,  and 
shall  be  rilled  in  on  both  sides  with  ink  or 
black  indelible  pencil.  The^  cards  must  plainly 
specify  in  full  each  item  for  which  charges 
are  authorized,  indicating  the  location  of  de- 
fects, as  provided  for  in  Rule  14. 

RULE  6.  Any  road  making  partial  repairs  of 
defects  on  a  car  which  are  covered  by  defect 
cards  will  have  the  defects  repaired  crossed  off 
the  original  card  with  ink  or  indelible  pencil 
and  card  replaced  on  car.  A  copy  of  the 


RULE  6  —  Continued. 

card  accompanying  the  bill  with  the  defects 
which  were  not  repaired  crossed  off  will  be 
sufficient  authority  to  bill. 

RULE  7.  When  repairs  of  any  kind  are  made 
to  foreign  cars  a  repair  card  must  be  securely 
attached  to  car,  as  per  Rule  14.  This  card 
must  specify  fully  the  repairs  made,  and  reason 
for  same,  the  date  and  place  where  made,  and 
name  of  road  making  repairs ;  also  show  lo- 
cation of  parts  repaired  or  renewed,  as  per 
Rule  14. 

If  no  bill  is  to  be  rendered,  the  billing  repair 
card  must  be  attached  to  the  monthly  bill,  with 
the  words  "  no  bill "  written  across  the  face  of 
the  card.  In  case  no  bill  is  to  be  rendered,  the 
words  "  no  bill "  shall  be  written  across  the 
face  of  the  repair  card. 

RULE  8.  The  Repair  Card  shall  be  of  the 
forms  as  shown  on  pages  82,  83  arid  84,  made 
in  triplicate,  to  be  known  as  Repair  Card,  Bill- 
ing Repair  Card  and  Record  Repair  Card.  The 
Repair  Card  to  be  tacked  on  car  shall  be  of 
cardboard,  printed  on  both  sides  in  black  ink, 
and  shall  be  filled  in  on  both  sides,  one  side  of 
which  must  be  filled  in  with  ink  or  black  in- 
delible pencil.  The  items  of  repairs  must  be  in 
writing.  The  Billing  Repair  Card  shall  be 
printed  on  one  side  and  show  the  same  infor- 
mation as  the  Repair  Card,  and  shall  be  at- 
tached to  bill  as  authority  for  charge.  The 
Record  Repair  Card  shall  be  retained  by  party 
making  repairs. 


Use  of 
Defect  Card. 


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M.    C.    B.   couplers  or 
parts   thereof    


RULE  9.  The  following  information  must 
be  specified  on  repair  cards : 

New  or  secondhand,  applied. 

Steel     or     malleable,     applied 
and  removed. 

Size    of    shank,    applied    and 
removed. 

Size   of  butt,   applied  and   re- 
moved. 

Complete,  or  name  of  part  or 
parts,  applied. 

Open   or   closed  knuckle,    ap- 
plied and  removed. 

Yoke     or     stem     attachment, 
applied  and  removed. 

Cast    iron,    cast    steel,    rolled 
or     forged     steel     or     steel . 
tired  wheels. 

New  or  secondhand,  applied. 

Cause    of    removal,    see    Rule 
10. 

Solid,  filled  or  other  kind. 

Length  of  bearings. 

Box  number  (see  Rule  14). 

Make  or  name  of  beam. 
Metal  brake  beams  or        New  or  secondhand. 

parts      thereof,      R.  .     Complete,  or  part  or  parts. 
and   R Cause  of  removal. 

Part  or  parts  scrapped. 
Brake   shoes,    applied.         Cast  or  reinforced  back. 
Triple    valve,    R.    and 

R Kind. 

When  triple  valve  or  cylinder  is  cleaned, 
the  initial  of  road  and  date  of  last  cleaning 
must  be  shown. 

If  necessary  to  remove  load  to  make  re- 
pairs, as  specified  in  Rule  107,  it  must  be 
plainly  stated. 

RULE  10.     In  noang  the  cause  of  removal  of 


Wheels  and  axles,   R. 
and  R 


Journal    bearings, 
and  R 


RULE  10  —  Continued. 
wheels  and  axles,  the  terms  used  in  Rules  68  ] 
to  86,  inclusive,  shall  be  used,  and  the  dimenr 
sions  of  the  defect  or  variation  from  the  pre- 
scribed limits  should  be  carefully  specified. 

In  all  cases  of  forged  or  rolled  steel  wheels, 
the  actual  thickness  of  tread  must  be  shown 
before  and  after  turning  off,  measured  from 
base  line  of  tread  to  the  condemning  limit  of 
tread,  which  is  ^  mch  above  the  witness 
groove;  also  show  actual  thickness  of  tread 
on  other  wheels  applied.  This  information 
must  be  reported  to  car  owners  regardless  of 
whether  repairs  are  chargeable  or  not. 

RULE  II.  Journal  bearings  having  a  lining 
y§  inch  thick  or  thicker,  shall  be  charged  as 
filled  journal  bearings,  and  not  as  lined  journal 
bearings. 

RULE  12.  The  evidence  of  a  joint  inspector,  ] 
or  the  joint  evidence  of  two  inspectors,  one 
representing  the  owner  of  the  car  and  the 
other  representing  a  railroad  company,  that  the 
repairs  are  not  proper,  shall  be  final;  the 
evidence  to  be  signed  only  after  an  actual  in^ 
spection  has  been  made. 

A  joint  evidence  card  shall  be  used  for  this 
purpose,  which  shall  describe  and  show  loca- 
tion of  parts  repaired  or  renewed,  as  per 
Rule  14.  This  card  shall  be  of  the  form  shown 
on  page  80. 

RULE  13.  The  joint  evidence  card,  accom- 
panied by  a  proper  repair  card,  upon  which  a 
bill  has  been  made,  shall  be  used  as  authority  - 


RULE  13  —  Continued. 

for  rendering  bill,  but  if  unaccompanied  by 
such  repair  card,  the  joint  evidence  card  shall 
be  sent  to  the  company  against  which  the  evi- 
dence has  been  presented,  and  it  shall  furnish 
a  defect  card  covering  the  wrong  repairs  if  it 
made  them. 

RULE  14.  The  end  of  car  toward  which  the 
cylinder  push  rod  travels  shall  be  known  as 
B  end  and  the  opposite  end  shall  be  known  as 
A  end. 

Facing  the  B  end  of  car,  in  their  order  on 
the  right  'side  of  car,  the  journal  boxes  and 
contained  parts  shall  be  known  as  Ri,  R2, 
R3  and  R4,  and  similarly  those  on  the  left 
side  of  car  shall  be  known  as  Li,  L2,  L3  and 

L4. 

Defect  and  repair  cards  must  be  securely 
attached  to  the  car  with  four  tacks,  preferably 
on  the  outside  face  of  intermediate  sill  between 
cross-tie  timbers  on  wooden  cars,  and  on  steel 
cars  to  cardboard  located  either  on  cross-tie 
under  car  or  on  inside  of  side  sill  at  the  end 
of  car. 

*  RULE  15.  Duplicate  defect  or  repair  cards 
must-  be  furnished  promptly  on  request  for 
lost  or  illegible  cards. 

GENERAL  INSTRUCTIONS. 

RULE  16.     Any    car    having    defects    which 
i  render  it  unsafe  to  run,   unsafe  to  trainmen, 
or  to  any  lading  suitable  to  the  car,  may  be 
repaired. 

Repairs   to   foreign    cars    shall    be    promptly 


RULE  16 — Continued. 

made,  and  the  work  shall  conform  in  detail 
to  the  original  construction,  and  with  the 
quality  of  material  originally  used,  except  as 
provided  for  in  Rules  17  and  18. 

RULE  17.  In  repairing  foreign  cars,  M.  C. 
B.  Standards  may  be  used  when  of  dimensions 
that  do  not  impair  the  strength  of  cars,  in 
lieu  of  the  parts  forming  their  original  con- 
struction. 

When  using  materials  for  repairs  to  foreign 
cars  for  which  the  Master  Car  Builders'  Asso- 
ciation has  adopted  specifications  as  a  stand- 
ard, the  materials  must  comply  with  the  re- 
quirements of  these  specifications. 

Malleable  iron  M.  C.  B.  Standards  may  be 
substituted  for  gray  iron  M.  C.  B.  Standards, 
but  the  net  cost  to  the  car  owner  in  such  cases 
must  be  no  greater  than  if  the  original  kind 
and  weight  of  material  had  been  applied.  Gray 
iron  M.  C.  B.  Standards  may  be  substituted  for 
malleable  M.  C.  B.  Standards,  but  in  such 
cases  the  debits  and  credits  must  be  for  what 
is  actually  applied  and  removed.  Repair  card 
must  state  kind  of  material  applied  and  re- 
moved. 

When  necessary  to  renew  brake  beams,  any 
metal  brake  beam  meeting  M.  C.  B.  specifica- 
tions may  be  used,  provided  that  the  beam 
applied  is  as  strong  as  the  beam  standard  to 
the  car  and  does  not  require  any  change  in 
hangers  or  other  details. 

Cast-iron  brake  shoes  may  be  replaced  with 


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RULE  17 — Continued. 

brake   shoes    with    reinforced   back,   in    repairs 

to  foreign  cars. 

White  pine,  yellow  pine,  fir  or  cypress  may 
be  used  when  repairing  siding  on  foreign  cars 
when  of  equal  grade  or  quality  to  the  material* 
standard  to  the  car.  Fir  or  oak  may  be  sub- 
stituted for  pine  when  splicing'  longitudinal 
sills. 

RULE  18.  Couplers  of  the  vertical  plane 
type,  other  than  M.  C.  B.  Standard,  when  re- 
placed with  M.  C.  B.  Standard,  the  expense 
of  alteration  thus  necessitated  shall  be  charge- 
able to  car  owners. 

Couplers  with  stem  attachments  may  be  re- 
placed with  pocket  attachment. 

Couplers  that  exceed  the  distance  of  5^ 
inches  between  point  of  knuckle  and  guard 
arm,  measured  perpendicularly  to  guard  arm, 
must  be  replaced,  in  which  case  owners  are 
responsible.  (See  drawing,  p.  n.) 

When  M.  C.  B.  couplers  of  another  make  are 
applied  to  a  car,  the  uncoupling  arrangement 
shall  be  made  operative  at  the  expense  of  the 
company  making  the  repairs. 

RULE  19.  In  making  repairs  to  foreign  cars, 
the  following  materials  shall  not  be  used  : 

Malleable  iron  couplers. 

Open  knuckles. 

Malleable   or   steel-backed   journal   bearings. 

RULE  20.  Any  company  finding  cars  not 
within  the  limits  of  standard  height  for  coup- 
lers, may  make  repairs  and  charge  to  owners. 


II 


RULE  20 —  Continued. 


Cars  should  be  adjusted  in  height  when  empty, 
as  far  as  possible,  and  in  order  to  justify  a 
bill  for  this  work  under  the  rules  of  inter- 
change, an  empty  car  measuring  32^  inches 
or  less  should  be  adjusted  to  34^  inches  or 
within  l/4  inch  thereof.  A, loaded  car  measur- 
ing 31^  inches  or  less  should  be  adjusted  to 
33>^  inches  or  within  Y^  inch  thereof,  or  as 
nearly  as  possible  to  such  height  as  will  bring 
it  to  34^2  inches  when  the  car  is  unloaded, 
the  height  to  be  measured  from  the  top  of  the 
rails  to  the  center  line  of'fhe  coupler  shank. 
When  bill  is  to  be  rendered,  the  height  of  car 
before  and  after  altering  must  be  shown  on 
repair  cards. 

JRuLE  21.     Bills  may  be  rendered  against  car 


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RULE  21  —  Continued. 

owners  for  the* cost  of  applying  temporary 
running  boards  and  hand  rails  to  make  cars 
safe  for  trainmen. 

RULE  22.  Draft  timbers  must  not  be  spliced. 
Longitudinal  sills  may  be  spliced  at  both  ends, 
except  that  not  more  than  two  adjacent  sills 
may  be  spliced  at  same  end  of  car.  The 
splicing  of  any  sill  between  cross-tie  timbers 
will  not  be  allowed. 

The  splice  may  be  located  either  side  of 
body  bolster,  but  the  nearest  point  of  any 
splice  must  not  be  within  12  inches  of  the 
same,  excepting  center  sills,  which  must  be 
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spliced  between  body  bolster  and  cross-tie 
timber,  but  not  within  24  inches  of  body  bol- 
ster. 

In  splicing  longitudinal  sills  other  than  cen- 
ter sills,  if  same  are  less  than  12  inches  in 
depth,  the  plan  shown  in  either  Fig.  8  or  gC 

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RULE  22 —  Continued. 

shall  be  followed.  If  the  sills  are  12  inches  or 
more  in  depth,  the  plan  shown  in  either  Fig. 
9  or  gC  shall  be  followed.  In  splicing  center 
sills  the  plan  shown  in  Fig.  gB  shall  be  fol- 
lowed. 


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RULE  22  —  Continued. 


The  size  of  horizontal  or  cross  bolts  should 
be  $/%  inch. 

Sills  of  foreign  cars  shall  be  spliced  as  above 
provided. 

Cars    delivered    in    interchange    with   center 


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RULE  22  —  Continued. 


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RULE  22  —  Continued. 

Steel  sills  may  be  spliced  in  the  most  con- 
venient location,  in  accordance  with  Figs.  A, 
B  and  C.  Adjacent  steel  sills  may  be  spliced. 
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RULE  23.  In  making  repairs  for  which  own- 
ers are  responsible,  wheels  other  than  33-inch 
may  be  replaced  with  33-inch  wheels,  if  prac- 


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RULE  23  —  Continued. 

ticable.     If  changes  are  necessary  in  order  to 

bring  the  car  to  the  proper  height,  the  cost  of 

so   doing  shall   also   be  chargeable   to   the   car 

owner. 

RULE  24.     Wheels  on  the  same  axle  must 
be  of  the  same  circumference. 

In  no  case  should  two  new  wheels  be 
mounted  on  the  same  axle  when  the  thickness 
of  the  two  flanges  together  will  exceed  the 
thickness  of  one  normal  and  one  maximum 
flange,  or  2  17-32  inches. 

RULE  25.  New  wheels  must  not  be  mated 
with  secondhand  wheels. 

RULE  26.  Prick  punching  or  shimming  the 
wheel  fit  must  not  be  allowed. 

RULE  27.  The  wheel  seats  of  foreign  axles 
must  not  be  reduced  more  than  1-16  inch  to  fit 
the  wheels,  and  in  no  case  must  they  be 
reduced  below  the  limits  given  in  Rule  86. 

RULE  28.  Any  company  repairing  foreign 
cars  with  wrong  material,  and  not  in  compli- 
ance with  the  Rules  17  to  27,  inclusive,  shall 
be  liable  to  the  owners  for  the  cost  of  chang- 
ing such  car  to  the  original  standard,  or  to 
the  requirements  of  these  rules,  except  that 
companies  applying  axles  smaller  than  the 
limits  given  in  Rule  86  shall  not  be  held,  re- 
sponsible for  improper  repairs  if  the  car  is 
not  stenciled  showing  the  capacity,  maximum 
or  minimum  weight. 

RULE  29.     When   secondhand    axles   are   ap- 


RULE  29  —  Continued. 

plied  under  conditions  which  make  them 
chargeable  to  the  owners,  the  diameters  of  the 
wheel  seats  and  center  must  not  be  less  than, 
and  the  diameter  of  the  journal  must  be  Y§ 
inch  greater  than  the  limiting  diameters  given 
in  Rule  86.  If  cars  are  marked  with  the  word 
"  Capacity,"  the  first  set  of  limits  must  be  fol- 
lowed. If  cars  are  marked  "  Maximum 
Weight,"  the  second  set  of  limits  must  be  fol- 
lowed. If  tank  cars  are  marked  limit  weight 
I  or  II,  the  corresponding  limits  must  be  fol- 
lowed. 

RULE  30.  (a)  The  date  (month  and  year), 
also  weight  and  capacity,  should  be  stenciled 
on  each  new  car  as  it  comes  from  the  car 
works,  under  the  supervision  of  the  owner's 
inspector.  The  scales  used  for  this  purpose 
should  be  tested  by  the  railroad  company's 
inspector,  provision  to  this  effect  to  be  incor- 
porated in  the  contract  covering  purchase  of 
the  equipment. 

(b)  Wooden     and     steel    underframe    cars 
one  year  old  should  be  reweighed  and  resten- 
ciled,  the  weight  to  be  followed  by  one  star ; 
cars   two  years   old   should  be   again   weighed 
and   stenciled,   the   weight   to   be    followed   by 
two    stars ;     cars    three    or    more    years    old 
should    be    again    weighed    and    stenciled,    the 
weight   to   be    followed  by   three   stars,   which 
will  indicate  final  weight. 

(c)  Steel  cars  should  be  reweighed  and  re- 
stenciled  after  they  have  been  in  service  twelve 


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RULE  30  —  Continued. 

months,   the   weight   to   be    followed   by   three 

stars,  indicating  final  weight. 

(d)  If  cars  are  materially  changed  by  rea- 
son of  new  appliances  or  general  repairs,  they 
should  be   reweighed   and   restenciled   without 
change  in  the  number  of  stars. 

(e)  Unless   the   owner  instructs   otherwise, 
any  car  without  stenciling,  or  with  a  variation 
of  500  pounds,  should  be  immediately  reweighed 
and  restenciled  and  car  owner  notified  of  old 
and  new  weights.     The  Official  Railway  Equip- 
ment Register  will  designate  the  proper  officer 
to  whom  these  special  reports  should  be  made. 

(f)  The  date  (month  and  year)  of  each  re- 
weighing,  should  be  stenciled  the  same  as  pro- 
vided for  new  cars  in  paragraph   (a). 

RULE  31.  The  relightweighing  of  cars,  as 
provided  above,  to  be  charged  to  car  owners 
in  accordance  with  Rule  No.  107,  except  when 
the  weight  of  the  car  is  changed  on  account 
of  repairs  due  to  unfair  usage ;  when  such 
repairs  are  made  on  authority  of  defect  card, 
charge  for  relightweighing  may  be  included 
on  same  authority. 

Cars  must  be  cleaned  before  reweighing. 


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PARTS  OF  CARS  WHICH  JUSTIFY  REPAIRS  IF 
OWNERS  ARE  RESPONSIBLE,  OR  REPAIRS  OR 
CARDING  IF  DELIVERING  COMPANY  IS  RESPON- 
SIBLE. 

BODIES. 

RULE  32.  Damage  of  any  kind  to  the  body 
of  the  car  due  to  unfair  usage,  derailment  or 
accident. 

Defect  cards  shall  not  be  required  for  any 
damage  so  slight  that  no  repairs  are  necessary, 
the  receiving  line  to  be  the  judge. 

RULE  33.  Material  missing  from  bodies  of 
cars  offered  in  interchange,  except  grain 
doors,  water  troughs  and  attachments,  all  in- 
side or  concealed  parts  of  cars ;  also  nuts, 
body  truss-rod  saddles  on  bolsters,  roof 
board§,  side  and  end  fascia,  wooden  door 
caps  and  ventilated  side  and  end  doors  unless 
car  is  stenciled  for  such  doors. 

RULE  34.  M.  C.  B.  couplers  not  equipped 
with  steel  or  wrought-iron  knuckles. 

RULE  35.  Cars  equipped  with  M.  C.  B.  coup- 
lers having  pocket  rear-end  attachments  and 
so  stenciled,  if  found  with  stem  or  spindle  at- 
tachments instead  of  pocket. 

RULE  36.  Uncoupling  attachments  of  M.  C. 
B.  couplers  offered  in  interchange  must  be 
made  operative  before  moving  from  inter- 
change points.  J 


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COMBINATIONS  OF  DAMAGES  TO  CARS  WITH 
WOODEN  UNDERFRAMES  OR  COMPOSITE  WOOD  AND 
METAL  UNDERFRAMES  WHICH  DENOTE  UNFAIR 
USAGE,  IF  EXISTING  AT  THE  SAME  END  OF 

CAR.     (Rules  37  to  42,  inclusive.) 

RULE  37.  Damage  to  coupler  body  accom- 
panied by  damage  to  draft  timber  (or  its  sub- 
stitute), and  end  sill. 

RULE  38.  Damaged  coupler  pocket,  accom- 
panied by  damage  to  draft  timber  (or  its  sub- 
stitute), and  end  sill. 

RULE  39.  Damaged  end  sill,  accompanied  by 
damage  to  draft  timber  (or  its  substitute)  or 
longitudinal  sill,  and  damage  to  either  coupler 
body  or  pocket. 

RULE  40.  Damaged  longitudinal  sill,  accom- 
panied by  damage  to  end  sill. 

RULE  41.  Damaged  longitudinal  sills,  if  ne- 
cessitating replacement  or  splicing  of  more 
than  two  sills. 

RULE  42.  Damaged  corner  and  end  posts,  if 
necessitating  the  renewal  of  more  than  two 
posts. 

This  will  include  damage  to  upper  struc- 
ture of  cars  with  metal  underframes. 

An  American  continuous  draft  key  and  rod  shall  not 
enter  into  a  combination  of  defects  denoting  unfair 
usage. 

It  will  be  assumed  that  a  missing  coupler  and  at- 
tachments are  damaged  unless  shown  to  the  contrary. 
This  only  refers  to  cases  where  the  coupler  if  broken 
would  enter  into  the  combination  of  defects. 


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ALL-STEEL  OR  ALL-STEEL  UNDERFRAME  CARS. 

RULE  43.  Damage  to  bodies  of  all-steel 
cars,  or  damage  to  underframe  of  all-steel 
underframe  cars,  when  necessary  to  repair,  if 
caused  by  unfair  usage. 

Longitudinal  sills,  end  sills  and  other  steel 
parts  of  cars  which  become  defective  due  to 
corrosion  and  which  were  not  damaged  in 
accident  or  by  unfair  usage. 

When  repairs  exceed  the  combinations  as 
covered  by  Rules  37  to  42,  inclusive,  owner's 
authority  must  be  obtained  before  repairs  are 
made. 

RULE  44.  Improperly  loaded  or  overloaded 
cars.  (See  "Rules  for  Loading  Materials.") 

The  transfer  or  rearrangement  of  lading,  as 
prescribed  in  A.  R.  A.  Car  Service  Rule  15, 
see  page  88. 

RULE  45.  Temporary  advertisements  tacked, 
glued,  pasted  or  varnished  on  cars. 

The  size  and  character  of  cards  which  may 
be  used  on  freight  cars  may  be  divided  into 
four  classes,  viz. : 

i.  Routing  Cards :  Cards  bearing  informa- 
tion required  by  the  railroads,  such  as  initial 
and  number  of  cars,  consignee,  consignor,  -des- 
tination, contents,  point  of  shipment,  route, 
etc.  These  cards  may  be  issued  by  consignor. 

To  be  of  cardboard  size,  vertical  dimension 
maximum  5  inches,  horizontal  dimension  maxi- 
mum 8  inches. 

To  be  permitted  on  all  loaded  cars. 


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RULE  45  —  Continued. 

No  picture  or  trade-mark  to  be  permitted. 

Space  for  railroad  information  to  occupy 
lower  three-fifths  of  card. 

Any  printing  on  the  upper  two-fifths  to  be 
limited  to  letters  not  exceeding  one-half  inch 
in  any  dimension. 

All  printing  to  be  in  black  ink. 

A  copy  of  card,  in  reduced  form,  is  shown 
herewith. 


(Name  of  Consignor,  etc.) 

(Name  of  Consignor,  etc. ,  in  letters  not  more 

than  one-half  inch  in  any  dimension.} 


Initial  and  No Contents 

Point  of  Shipment R.  R. 

Consignee  and  Destination 

Via 

Date.. 


2.  Special  Cards :     Required  by  the  Regu- 
lations  for   the   Transportation   of   Explosives 
formulated  by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission   and   the    Regulations    for   the    Trans- 
portation  of   Inflammable   Articles   and   Acids 
prescribed  by  the  American  Railway  Associa- 
tion.    They  shall  be  used,  be  of  the  text  and 
size  described,  and  be  attached  to  cars  as  pre- 
scribed by  said  regulations. 

3.  Symbol  (e.  g.,  fast  freight  line,  manifest 


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RULE  45  —  Continued. 

freight,  etc.)  and  various  M.  C.  B.  cards: 
Cards  prescribed  by  individual  roads  for  spe- 
cial purposes.  Their  size,  use,  text  and  method 
of  application  will  be  prescribed  by  each  indi- 
vidual road  to  suit  its  requirements.  These 

cards    may    only   be    issued    by    railroads    and 

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may  include  same  information  as  routing  cards 

except  name  of  consignor. 

4.  Special  Cards  :  Cards  required  by  United 
States  Customs  Regulations  or  by  State  au- 
thorities, such,  for  example,  as  quarantine 
regulations,  and  must  be  used  as  prescribed  by 
the  United  States  Customs  Regulations.  J 

RULE  46.  If  the  car  has  air-signal  or  train- 
line  steam  pipes,  the  hose,  pipes  and  couplings 
are  at  owner's  risk,  unless  the  car  is  stenciled 
that  it  is  so  equipped. 

RULE  47.  When  two  or  more  cars  chained 
together,  or  any  cars  which  require  switch 
chains  to  handle  them,  are  delivered  at  an 
interchange  point,  the  receiving  road  shall  de- 
liver to  the  delivering  road  at  the  time  an 
equivalent  number  of  switch  chains  of  the 
same  size  as  the  chains  so  used  on  the  cars 
delivered,  or,  in  lieu  thereof,  furnish  a  defect 
card  for  such  chains. 

RULE  48.  Side  doors,  end  doors,  roof  doors, 
grain  doors,  water  troughs  and  attachments, 
and  all  inside  or  concealed  parts  of  cars 
missing  or  damaged  under  fair  usage,  and  fail- 
ure  or  loss  under  fair  usage  of  any  part  of  the 
body  of  the  car,  except  as  provided  for  in 
Rule  33- 


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RULE  49.  Steel  cars  not  equipped  with  card- 
boards for  repair  and  defect  cards. 

RULE  50.  Cars  not  within  the  limits  of 
standard  height  for  couplers,  31^2  inches  mini- 
mum to  34^2  inches  maximum  for  standard- 
gauge  cars. 

RULE  51.  Couplers  that  exceed  the  distance 
of  s^/s  inches  between  point  of  knuckle  and 
guard  arm,  as  described  in  Rule  18. 

RULE  52.  Running  boards  in  bad  order  or 
insecurely  fastened. 

Sill  steps,  ladders,  grabirons  bent,  broken, 
missing  or  insecurely  fastened,  except  when 
car  has  been  wrecked,  cornered  or  raked. 

Handholds  or  grabirons  must  be  of  wrought 
iron  or  steel  and  secured  by  bolts,  rivets  or 
lag  screws. 

Lag  screws  must  not  be  used  on  cars  sten- 
ciled "  United  States  Safety  Appliances,  Stand- 
ard," or  on  cars  stenciled  "  United  States 
Safety  Appliances." 

BRAKES. 

RULE  53.  All  freight  cars  offered  in  inter- 
change must  be  equipped  with  air  brakes. 

After  September  i,  1912,  all  freight  cars 
offered  in  interchange  must  be  equipped  with 
M.  C.  B.  Standard  I  ^-inch  train  line,  angle 
cocks  and  quick-action  triple  valve. 

After  September  I,  1912,  all  freight  cars 
offered  in  interchange  not  equipped  with  pres- 
sure-retaining valves. 


27 


RULE  54.  Damage  to  any  part  of  the  brake 
apparatus  caused  by  unfair  usage,  derailment 
or  accident. 

RULE  55.  Brake  material  missing  from  cars 
offered  in  interchange. 

RULE  56.  Burst  or  torn  air  hose,  burst  or 
leaky  pipes,  account  of  seams,  on  cars  offered 
in  interchange. 

RULE  57.  Missing  air-brake  hose,  missing  or 
damaged  air-brake  pipe,  fittings,  angle  cocks, 
cut-out  cocks,  cylinders,  reservoirs,  triple 
valves,  brake-pipe  air  strainer  or  dirt  col- 
lector, release  valves,  pressure-retaining  valves 
or  any  parts  of  these  items. 

RULE  58.  Cars  equipped  with  air-brake  hose 
other  than  M.  C.  B.  Standard  i^  inches  and 
labeled  as  shown  by  cut  on  next  page. 


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RULE  58 — Continued. 

prior  to  September  I,  1909,  or  if  date  is  not 
cut  out  and  the  label  shows  date  of  manufac- 
ture prior  to  September  I,  1909. 

RULE  59.  Damage  to  interior  portion  of  cyl-  1 
inder  or  triple  valve,  leaky  pipes,  account  of 
rust  or  seams,  air  hose  burst  from  air  pres- 
sure, torn  air  hose  and  defective,  missing  or 
worn-out  parts  of  brakes  not  elsewhere  pro- 
vided for,  which  have  failed  under  fair  usage ; 
except  as  provided  for  in  Rules  55,  56  and  57. 

RULE  60.  Cylinders  or  triple  valves  of  air- 
brake cars  not  cleaned,  oiled  and  tested  within 
twelve  months,  and  the  initial  of  'road,  together 
with  date  of  last  cleaning,  oiling  and  testing, 
preferably  stencile'd  on  the  brake  cylinder  or 
auxiliary  reservoir,  or  if  same  is  not  readily 
visible,  in  a  convenient  location  at  release  rod, 
with  white  paint. 

Triple  valves  cleaned  should  be  tested  on  an 
M.  C.  B.  test  rack. 

RULE  61.  All  cars  not  originally  equipped 
with  retaining  valves. 

RULE  62.  In  replacing  air-brake  hose  on 
foreign  cars  for  which  bills  are  made,  new 
M.  C.  B.  i^-inch  Standard  hose,  and  so  la- 
beled, must  be  used. 

TRUCKS. 

RULE  63.     Damage  of  any  kind  to  the  truck 
due  to  unfair  usage,  derailment  or  accident. 
RULE  64.     Material  missing  from  trucks  of 


Owners 
responsible. 


Delivering 

Company 
responsible. 


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RULE  64 — Continued. 

f  cars    offered    in    interchange,    except    journal- 
box  lids  and  nuts. 

RULE  65.  Journal  bearings  and  journal  box 
bolts  which  require  renewal  by  reason  of 
change  of  wheels  or  axles  for  which  the  de- 
livering company  is  responsible,  regardless  of 
the  previous  condition  of  the  bearings. 

RULE  66.  Cars  intended  to  be  equipped  with 
metal  brake  beams  and  so  stenciled,  if  found 
with  wooden  brake  beams. 

After  September  i,  1915,  cars  equipped  with 
wooden  or  trussed  wooden  brake  beams  will 
not  be  accepted  in  interchange. 

RULE  67.  Defective,  missing  or  worn-out 
parts  of  trucks  not  elsewhere  provided  for, 
which  have  failed  under  fair  usage,  or  if  any 
part  of  the  truck  frame  or  attachments  is  less 
than  2^  inches  above  the  top  of  the  rail. 

WHEELS. 

RULE  68.  Flat-sliding,  cast-iron  wheels :  if 
the  spot  caused  by  sliding  is  2.y2  inches  or  over 
in  length.  (Care  should  be  taken  to  distinguish 
this  defect  from  worn  through  chill.)  See 
Fig.  2. 

Flat  sliding,  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels:  if 
the  spot  caused  by  sliding  is  2T/2  inches  or  over 
in  length ;  a  separate  defect  card  to  be  fur- 
nished. 

RULE  69.     Broken  flange,  except  as  in  Rule 
[  78,  chipped  flange,  if  chip  is  on  throat  side  of 


31 

RULE  69 — Continued. 

flange,  and  exceeds  il/2  inches  in  length  and  l/2 
inch  in  width,  or  if  it  extends  l/%  inch  past  the 
center  of  flange ;  broken  rim,  if  not  caused  by 
defective  casting,  if  the  tread,  measured  from 
the  flange  at  a  point  54  inch  above  tread,  is  less 
than  3^4  inches  in  width  (see  Fig.  5),  or  any 
breakage  caused  by  unfair  usage,  derailment  or 
accident. 

RULE  70.  Cars  equipped  with  forged  steel 
or  steel-tired  wheels  and  so  stenciled,  if  found 
with  cast-iron  or  cast-steel  wheels. 

Cars  equipped  with  cast-steel  wheels  and  sp 
stenciled,  if  found  with  cast-iron  wheels. 

Forged  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels  may  be 
substituted  for  cast-steel  wheels. 

RULE  71.  Shelled  out:  wheels  with  defec- 
ive  treads  on  account  of  cracks  or  shelled-out 
spots  2.y2  inches  or  over,  or  so  numerous 
as  to  endanger  the  safety  of  the  wheel. 

Brake  burn:  wheels  having  defective  treads 
on  account  of  cracks  or  shelling  out  due  to 
heating. 

RULE  72.  Seams  Yz  inch  long  or  over  at  a 
distance  of  J/£  inch  or  less  from  the  throat  of 
the  flange,  or  seams  3  or  more  inches  long,  if 
such  seams  are  within  the  limits  of  3^  inches, 
as  shown  in  Fig.  5. 

RULE  73.  Worn  through  chill:  when  the 
worn  spot  is  2^  inches  or  over  in  length.  Care 
must  be  taken  to  distinguish  this  defect  from 
flat  spots  caused  by  sliding  wheels. 


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f  RULE  74.  Worn  flanges,  cast-iron  or  cast- 
steel  wheels :  wheels  under  cars  of  less  than 
80,000  pounds  capacity,  with  flanges  having 
flat  vertical  surfaces  extending  I  inch  or  more 
from  tread,  or  flanges  15-16  inch  thick  or  less, 
gauged  at  a  point  Y&  inch  above  tread.  Wheels 
under  cars  of  80,000  pounds  capacity  or  over, 
with  flanges  having  flat  vertical  surfaces  ex- 
tending y%  inch  or  more  from  tread,  or  flanges 
i  inch  thick  or  less,  gauged  at  a  point  ^  inch 
above  tread.  (See  Figs.  3  and  4.) 

Worn  flanges :  Forged  steel  or  steel-tired 
wheels :  flanges  having  flat  vertical  surfaces 
extending  I  inch  or  more  from  tread,  or 
flanges  15-16  inch  thick  or  less.  (See  Figs. 
3  and  4.) 

RULE  75.  Thick  flange :  flange  over  i  19-64 
inches  thick  for  cast-iron  wheels  having  in- 
creased flange  and  tread  standards  of  1907  and 
1909.  (See  Fig.  6.) 

RULE  76.  Tread  worn  hollow:  if  the  tread 
is  worn  sufficiently  hollow  to  render  the  flange 

or  rim  liable  to  breakage. 

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RULE  77.  Burst:  if  the  wheel  is  cracked 
from  the  wheel  fit,  outward,  by  pressure  from 
the  axle. 

RULE  78.  Cracked  or  broken  flange,  caused 
by  seams,  worn  through  chill  or  worn  flange. 
See  also  Rules  69  and  83. 

RULE  79.  Broken  or  chipped  rim,  caused  by 
defective  casting,  if  the  tread,  measured  from 


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RULE  79  —  Continued. 

the  flange  at  a  point  ^  inch  above  tread,  is  less  } 
than  3^4  inches  in  width.     (See  Fig.  5.)     See 
also  Rules  69  and  83. 

RULE  80.  Cracked  tread,  cracked  plate,  one 
or  more  cracked  brackets,  or  broken  in  pieces 
under  fair  usage.  See  also  Rule  69. 

Forged  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels  loose, 
broken  or  cracked  hubs,  plates,  bolts,  retaining 
ring  or  tire  under  fair  usage. 

RULE  81.  Wheels  loose  or  out  of  gauge. 
(See  Fig.  7  for  wheels  cast  prior  to  the  M. 
C.  B.  Standard  tread  and  flange  adopted  in 
1907,  and  Fig.  8  for  wheels  cast  after  Jan- 
uary I,  1908.) 

RULE  82.  Chipped  flange:  if  chip  is  on  the 
opposite  side  from  throat  of  flange  and  ex- 
ceeds iy2  inches  in  length  and  y2  inch  in  width, 
or  if  it  extends  ^  inch  past  the  center  of 
flange. 

RULE  83.  The  determination  of  flat  spots, 
worn  flanges  and  chipped  treads  shall  be  made 
by  a  gauge,  as  shown  in  Fig.  i,  and  its  applica- 
tion to  defective  wheels,  as  shown  in  Figs.  2, 
3,  4  and  5.  The  determination  of  thick  flanges 
for  all  wheels  cast  after  January  I,  1908,  shall 
be  made  by  a  gauge  shown  in  Fig.  6. 


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SEE    RULE    74. 

For  cast-iron  or  cast-steel  wheels  under  cars  of  less 
than  80,000  pounds  capacity,  and  forged-steel  or  steel- 
tired  wheels  with  flanges  15-16  inch  thick  or  less; 
cast-iron  or  cast-steel  wheels  under  cars  of  80,000 
pounds  capacity  or  over,  with  flanges  i  inch  thick  or 
less. 


36. 


RULE  83  —  Continued. 


METHOD  OF  QAUQINQ   WORN  FLANGES.     . 

FIG.  4. 

SEE    RULE    74. 

For  cast-iron  or  cast-steel  wheels  under  cars  of  less 
than  80,000  pounds  capacity,  and  forged-steel  or  steel- 
tired  wheels  i  inch  or  more  from  tread;  for  cast-iron 
or  cast-steel  wheels  under  cars  of  80,000  pounds  capac- 
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41 

AXLES. 

RULE  84.     Cut  journals,  axle  bent  or  axle  | 

£     1.  r   •  j        -1  Delivering 

rendered  unsafe  by  unfair  usage,  derailment  or  [  Company 

•  j  I    responsible. 

accident.  J 


RULE  85.     Axles    broken    or    having    seamy 

journals,    fillets    in    back    shoulder    worn    out, 

the  length   of  journal  increased   l/2   inch  over 

standard  length,  or  collars  broken  off  or  worn 

to  Y^  inch  or  less  under  fair  usage. 

RULE  86.     Axles  less  than  the  following  pre- 

scribed limits: 

FOR   CARS    MARKED   WITH   "  CAPACITY." 

CAPACITY  OF'CAR.      JOURNAL.       WHEEL  SEAT.       CENTER. 

100,000               5      inches.        6%  inches.        5%  inches. 

80,000              4*4        "           6M        "           5A        " 

,  Owners 

70,000              4           "           5%                    4>g 

responsible. 

60,000              3%                    5           "           4^ 

50,000              3^        «           4^        «           4^ 

40,000              3M       "           4%        «           3% 

30,000              3           u    >*     ±1A       u           Ws        " 

FOR  CARS   MARKED  "  MAXIMUM    WEIGHT/' 

MAXIMUM  WEIGHT.      JOURNAL.      WHEEL  SEAT.      CENTER. 

161,000               5      inches.        6%  inches.        5%  inches. 

132,000              4^4        "           6M        "           5% 

112,000              4M        "           6           "           514 

95,000              3M       "           5^4        "           4M 

79,000              3%        "           5M        "           4% 

66,000              3M       "           4%        «           4M       " 

58,000             3          "          4M       "          4H       "        J 

42 


RULE  86 — Continued. 

TABLE    I. 
FOR   TANK    CARS    MARKED   LIMIT    WEIGHT    I. 

LIMIT  WEIGHT  I. 

IN  POUNDS.  JOURNAL. 

5      inches. 

4%        " 


161,000 
132,000 
112,000 
95,000 
79,000 
66,000^ 
58,000 


WHEEL  SEAT. 

6^  inches. 


CENTER. 

5%   inches. 


3% 


FOR   TANK    CARS    MARKED    LIMIT    WEIGHT    II. 

LIMIT  WEIGHT  II. 

IN  POUNDS.  JOURNAL.  WHEEL  SEAT  CENTER. 

161,000  5      inches.  62£  inches.  5%  inches. 

132,000  4%  "  6M  "  5% 

112,000  4M  "  6  5>4 

95,000  3%  "  5YZ  "  4% 

79,000  3V2  "  5M  "  4% 

66,000  3M  4%  "  4^ 

58,000  3  "      „         4%  4V£ 

All  cars,  except  tank  cars,  to  have  their  light 
weight  and  capacity  or  their  light  weight  and 
maximum  weight  stenciled  on  them. 

All  tank  cars  to  have  Limit  Weight  I  or 
Limit  Weight  II  stenciled  on  them. 

IMPROPER   REPAIRS. 

RULE  87.  Any  company  making  improper 
repairs  is  solely  responsible  to  the  owners, 
with  the  exception  of  the  cases  provided  for 
in  Rules  34,  35,  36,  58,  66  and  70. 

RULE  88.  The  company  making  such  im- 
proper repairs  shall  'place  upon  the  car,  at  the 


43 


RULE  88 — Continued. 
time   and   place   the   work   is   done,   an   M.    C.  ^ 
B.    defect    card,    which    card    must    state    the 
wrong  material  used. 

RULE  89.  When  improper  repairs  of  owner's 
defects  have  been  made  and  bill  rendered,  the 
owner  may  counter-bill  against  the  company 
making  the  wrong  repairs  for  the  cost  of 
changing  the  car  to  the  original  standard,  or  to 
the  requirements  of  Rules  17  to  27,  inclusive, 
and  29  to  31,  inclusive,  if  the  work  is  done. 

RULE  90.  When  improper  repairs  of  defects 
for  which  owners  are  not  responsible  are 
made,  the  owner  may  make  bill  against  the 
company  making  the  improper  repairs  for  the 
cost  of  changing  the  car  to  the  original  stand- 
ard, or  to  the  requirements  of  Rules  17  to  27, 
inclusive,  and  29  to  31,  inclusive,  if  the  work 
is  done. 

INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  BILLING. 

RULE  91.  Bills  may  be  rendered  for  work 
done  under  Rule  16,  except  in  cases  where 
owners  are  not  responsible  and  the  car  bears 
no  defect  card  covering  the  defects  repaired, 
stating  upon  the  bill  the  date  and  place  where 
the  repairs  were  made;  the  billing  repair  card 
or  defect  card  to  accompany  the  bill. 

NOTE. —  The  following  rules  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  American  Railway  Accounting  Officers 
should  be  observed  when  rendering  or  correct- 
ing bills: 

Bills  shall  not  be  rendered  for  amounts  less 
than  25  cents  in  aggregate,  but  charges  for 


Company 
making 
repairs 
responsible. 


44 

RULE  91  —  Continued. 

items  less  than  25  cents  may  be  held  until  they 
amount  to  that  sum,  provided  said  aggregate 
is  rendered  within  60  days.  No  bill  shall  be 
returned  for  correction  on  account  of  error 
for  less  than  100  cents  in  aggregate  of  bill,  but 
said  bill  shall  be  passed  for  payment  at  once, 
and  the  alleged  error  brought  to  the  attention 
of  the  road  rendering  the  same  within  sixty 
days  from  date  of  bill.  The  receiving  road 
shall  at  once  issue  a  letter  of  authority  for 
counter-bill  to  cover  the  acknowledged  error, 
said  letter  to  be  attached  to  the  bill  as  author- 
ity. 

No  bills  shall  be  returned  for  correction  on 
account  of  wrong  car  numbers,  but  road  ren- 
dering bill  should  be  communicated  with  by 
letter,  and  if,  after  investigation,  it  is  found 
to  be  a  fact  that  wrong  car  number  has  been 
given,  correct  number  shall  be  furnished  or 
credit  covering  amount  of  charge  allowed  on 
next  month's  bill. 

When  necessary  to  return  bills  for  correc- 
tion, all  defect  cards  and  billing  repair  cards 
should  be  detached,  except  those  covering  re- 
pairs to  cars,  the  charge  for  which  there  may 
be  some  question  as  to  its  correctness. 

RULE  92.  In  rendering  bills,  cars  shall  be 
treated  as  belonging  to  companies  or  individ- 
uals whose  name  or  initials  they  bear,  except 
in  case  of  Line  Cars  where  the  equipment  list 
of  the  general  officers  of  the  Line  designates 
a  party  to  make  settlement. 


45 

RULE  93.  All  companies  rendering  bill 
should  consolidate  all  charges  against  any  one 
company  into  one  monthly  bill. 

RULE  94.  For  repairs  made  on  defect  cards, 
the  card  must  accompany  the  bill  as  voucher 
for  the  work  done,  but  no  bill  shall  be  ren- 
dered for  repairs  which  have  not  been  made. 

RULE  95.  Bills  may  be  rendered  against  car 
owners  for  the  labor  only  of  replacing  the  fol- 
lowing material  when  lost  on  the  line  of  the 
company  making  the  repairs,  viz. : 

Brake  beams,  including  shoes,  heads,  jaws, 
key  bolts,  brake  pins  and  hangers,  when  lost 
with  the  brake  beam. 

Brake  levers,  lever  guides,  top  and  bottom 
brake  rods,  whether  or  not  they  are  lost  with 
the  brake  beam. 

Couplers,  including  yokes,  springs  and  fol- 
lowers, when  lost  with  the  coupler. 

RULE  96.  In  making  bills  under  these  rules, 
the  information  necessary  should  be  embodied 
on  the  forms  shown  on  page  86,  whether  the 
same  is  made  as  a  bill  or  a  statement  to  ac- 
company a  bill. 

In  exchanging  wheels  and  axles  under  for- 
eign cars,  reports  on  repair  cards,  of  M.  C.  B. 
Standard  size,  embodying  all  information  re- 
quired by  the  statement  shown  on  page  85,  will 
be  accepted. 

RULE  97.  Bills  or  statements  for  wheel  and 
axle  work  must  make  specific  mention  of  each 
wheel  and  axle  removed  and  applied.  If  no 


46 


RULE  97 —  Continued. 

marks  are  found  on  wheels  or  axles  removed, 

a  notation  to  that  effect  must  be  made. 

RULE  98.  Bills  rendered  for  wheels  and 
axles  shall  be  in  accordance  with  the  follow- 
ing schedule  of  prices  for  material,  with  the 
proper  debits  and  credits : 


New. 

Second- 
hand. 

Scrap. 

One  36-in.  cast-iron  wheel. 

$10.50 

$7.75 

$5.25 

One  33-in.  cast-iron  wheel. 

9.00 

7.00 

4.75 

One  33-in.  forged  or  rolled 
steel  wheel  

}    23.00 

5.00 

One  axle,  100,000  Ibs  

21.50 

11.75 

7.75 

One  axle,  80,000  Ibs  

17.75 

10.00 

6.50 

One  axle,  60,000  Ibs  

14.00 

7.75 

5.25 

One  axle,  50,000  Ibs.   (or 
under)  

\    11.50 

6.25 

4.25 

and  with  an  additional  charge  for  all  labor  for 
each  pair  of  wheels  and  axles  removed  from 
all  archbar  trucks  of  $1.75,  and  from  all  solid 
pedestal  trucks  of  $2.00.  If  new  wheels  and 
axles  are  substituted  for  secondhand  wheels 
and  axles,  proper  charges  and  credits  shall  be 
allowed,  although  such  substitution  be  made  on 
account  of  only  one  loose  or  defective  wheel, 
or  a  defective  axle,  with  the  following  excep- 
tions :  In  case  the  owner  of  a  car  removes  a 
damaged  wheel  or  axle,  no  charge  shall  be 
made  for  any  difference  in  value  between  the 
parts  used  and  those  removed  that  are  not 
damaged. 


47 

RULE  98 — Continued. 

Removing,  turning  and  replacing  a  pair  of 
forged  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels :  $3.25  for 
pedestal  type  of  truck  and  $3.00  for  archbar 
truck. 

The  price  for  new  forged  or  rolled  steel 
wheels  shall  only  apply  to  such  wheels  having 
treads  ifys  inches  thick  or  over,  measured  from 
base  line  of  tread  to  the  condemning  limit, 
which  is  Y^  inch  above  witness  groove.  For 
wheels  having  treads  less  than  i^  inches  thick 
as  described,  a  reduction  shall  be  made  in  price 
at  the  rate  of  75  cents  per  1-16  inch  thickness 
(on  radius)  of  tread. 

Any  loss  or  increase  of  service  metal  on 
forged  or  rolled  steel  wheels  shall  be  credited 
or  charged  at  the  rate  of  75  cents  per  1-16 
inch  thickness  (on  radius)  of  tread. 

IN  CASE  OF  OWNER'S  DEFECTS. 

No  credit  will  be  allowed  owner  for  loss  of 
service  metal  due  to  turning-off  wheels. 
Should  there  be  a  further  loss  of  service 
metal,  however,  due  to  the  application  of  other 
wheels,  the  proper  credit  for  such '  additional 
loss  must  be  given  the  owner.  Any  increase 
in  the  amount  of  service  metal,  due  to  the 
application  of  other  wheels,  may  be  charged  to 
the  owner. 

DELIVERING  LINE  DEFECTS. 

When  repairs  are  not  covered  by  a  defect 
card,  the  proper  credit  for  any  loss  of  service 
metal  must  be  given  the  owner;  but  no  charge 


48 

RULE  98  —  Continued. 

shall  be  made  against  the  owner  for  any  in- 
crease in  the  amount  of  service  metal,  due  to 
the  application  of  other  wheels. 

DELIVERING  LINE  DEFECTS. 

When  the  repairs  are  covered  by  the  defect 
card  of  another  company,  charge  covering  such 
repairs  shall  be  made  against  the  owner  of  the 
car,  the  defect  card  and  the  billing  repair  card 
to  be  attached  to  the  bill.  The  owner  to  ren- 
der counter-bill  on  the  authority  of  the  defect 
card  against  the  company  issuing  same,  includ- 
ing an  additional  charge  to  cover  the  loss  of 
service  metal,  on  account  of  the  defects  cov- 
ered by  the  card.  Should  there  be  an  addi- 
tional loss  of  service  metal,  on  account  of  the 
application  of  other  wheels,  the  company  mak- 
ing the  repairs  shall  allow  the  proper  credit 
to  the  owner  to  cover  such  additional  loss  of 
metal.  Should  there  be  an  increase  in  the 
amount  of  service  metal,  due  to  the  application 
of  other  wheels,  such  increase  may  be  charged 
to  the  owner  and  included  in  the  owner's 
counter-bill  against  the  company  issuing  the 
defect  card,  except  when  repairs  are  made  by 
the  owner. 

The  above  provisions  shall  govern  any  loss 
or  increase  of  service  metal  on  account  of  the 
mate  wheel,  even  if  same  is  not  defective, 
when  both  wheels  are  turned  off  to  correspond. 

The  necessary  information  must  be  given  in 
all  cases,  as  provided  in  Rule  10. 

In   cases   of   slid-flat  wheels,   1-16  inch  for 


49 

RULE  98 — Continued. 

loss  of  service  metal  will  be  allowed  for  flat 
spots  2T/2  inches  long  and  1-16  inch  for  each 
additional  inch  or  fraction  thereof. 


RULE  99.  If  car  owner  elects  on  account  of 
improper  repairs  to  remove  M.  C.  B.  Standard 
axles  suitable  to  the  capacity  of  the  car,  he 
shall  make  charge  for  secondhand  axles  and 
allow  credit  for  secondhand  axles  if  they  are 
in  good  order.  Axles  removed  below  the  jour- 
nal limit  of  100,000  pounds,  80,000  pounds, 
60,000  pounds  and  40,000  pounds  capacity,  to 
be  credited  as  scrap  when  removed. 

RULE  TOO.  Bills  or  statements  which  do  not 
embody  all  the  information  called  for  by  the 
headings  of  the  columns  may  be  ^declined  until 
made  to  conform  to  the  requirements  of  the 
rule. 

In  all  cases  of  forged  or  rolled  steel  wheels, 
the  repair  card  must  show  the  actual  thickness 
of  tread  before  and  after  turning  off,  measured 
from  base  line  of  tread  to  the  condemning 
limit  of  tread,  which  is  ^  inch  above  the  wit- 
ness groove;  also  show  actual  thickness  of 
tread  on  other  wheels  applied.  This  informa- 
tion must  be  reported  to  car  owners  regardless 
of  whether  repairs  are  chargeable  or  not. 

RULE  101.  Bill  for  repairs  made  under 
these  rules  and  for  material  furnished  shall  be 
in  conformity  with  schedules  of  prices  and 
credits  for  the  articles  enumerated  below: 


50 


RULE  1 01  —  Continued. 


Air-brake  Equipment: 
Air-brake  hose,  1%".  M.  C.  B.  Standard, 
complete  with  fittings,  applied  to  car, 

charge $2.00 

Air-brake  hose,  M.  C.  B.  Standard,  credit 

for  fittings  for  same .80 

Angle  cock,  plain  handle 1 .50 

Angle  cock,  self-locking  handle 1.80 

Angle  cock  handle,  plain .08 

Angle-cock  handle,  self -locking .30 

Auxiliary  reservoir 2.75 

Cut-out  cock 1.30 

Cut-out  cock  handle .07 

Cylinder  body 2.00 

"         piston  and  rod 1 .00 

"     follower 08 

'     packing  leather .60 

expander  .05 

"     release  spring .50 

"         non-pressure  head .60 

"         gasket .06 

Gasket,  air-hose  coupling .04 

Pipe  nipple,  on-end  of  train  pipe. 

Pressure-retaining  valve,  2  position 1 .00 

«     3       "        2.25 

Release  valve .  .60 

"      handle .10 

"      rubber  seat 02 

"          "      vent  valve,  complete ....  .10 

"     rod 10 

Spring  cotter  pins  for  key  bolts  and  brake 

pins,  each,  applied ; 

Train-pipe  air  strainer  (1^-inch) .60 

Triple  check-valve  case 1 .00 

'     cylinder  cap  (drain  cup) .75 

"   gasket  ...  .40 

'     emergency  valve .60 

"    seat '  .55 

"    piston .50 

"    rubber  seat .05 

"         check  valve .25 

"    spring .02 

"    case  gasket 10 

"     graduating  spring  . . : .05 

stem .15 

"       #      "             "     nut .20 

valve 05 

41     piston  and  ring 2.00 

"     ring  (only) 

"     slide  valve .75 


8-INCH. 


10-INCH. 


51 


RULE  101  —  Continued. 


MATERIAL. 

8-INCH. 

10-INCH. 

Triple  slide  spring  
"     valve  strainer 

$0.03 
05 

$0.03 
05 

"         "    gasket  

.20 

.20 

MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Altering  height  of  one  end  of  car,  net.    .  .  . 

$1.25 

Bolts,  nuts  and  forgings,  finished,  per  Ib.  ... 
Brake  shoes  applied;  no  credit  for  scrap  
Brake  shoe,  reinforced  back,  applied;  no 
credit  for  scrap          

.03 
.30 

.40 

SO.  00| 

Brake-shoe  key,  applied  ;  no  credit  for  scrap 

.05 

Castings,  rough  iron,  per  Ib  
'     malleable,  per  Ib  
'     steel,  per  Ib  
Chain  per  Ib 

.02 
.031/6 
.04^ 
05 

.00& 
MM 

'01 

Coupler,  M.  C.  B.,  complete,  new,  steel, 
5  by  5  shank  ,  

8.75 

Coupler,  M.  C.  B.,  complete,  new,  steel,  5  by 
7  shank 

9  50 

Coupler  body,  one,  new,  steel,  5  by  5  shank  . 
"   malleable,  5  by  5  shank.  . 
"   new,  steel,  5  by  7  shank  .  . 
"       "   malleable,  5  by  7  shank.  . 
knuckle,  one,  new,  open  

5.75 

"e'.so"' 

1.05 
.90 
1.15 
1.00 
.40 

"      "   solid 

2  25 

45 

"       pin,  one,  new  
lock,  one,  new. 

.25 
0  50 

.05 
0.06 

Other  individual  malleable,  wrought  or  steel 
parts,  per  Ib.    .                              .           . 

04 

Door,  for  end  of  box  or  stock  car,  wooden, 
each,  applied  ;  no  credit  for  scrap 

1  95 

Door,  for  end  of  box  or  stock  car,  ventilated 
(wooden  frame  with  iron  rods),  each, 
applied;  no  credit  for  scrap 

3  30 

Door,  for  side  of  box  or  stock  car,  wooden, 
each,  applied;  no  credit  for  scrap  
Door,  for  side  of  box  or  stock  car;  ventilated 
(wooden  frame  with  iron   rods),  each, 
applied;  no  credit  for  scrap  
Door,  for  side  of  carriage,  automobile  or 
furniture  car,  wooden,  each,  applied;  no 
credit  for  scrap 

3.65 
5.50 
5  00 



Door,  for  side  of  stock  car,  with  iron  rods, 
each,  applied;  no  credit  for  scrap  
Door,  for  roof  of  coke  car.  wooden,  each, 
applied;  no  credit  for  scrap  
Door,  for  roof  of  stock  car,  wooden,  each, 
applied  ;  no  credit  for  scrap  

4.40 
2.45 
.85 

52 


RULE  1 01  —  Continued. 


MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Half  door,  for  side  of  box  or  stock  car,  each, 
applied'  no  credit  for  scrap  

$2.50 

Half  door,  for  end  of  furniture  or  carriage 
car,  each,  applied;  no  credit  for  scrap.  .  .  . 

3.00 

Handhold,  one,  applied,  net  

.40 

Hatch  cover,  for  roof  of  refrigerator  car, 
wooden,  each,  applied;  no  credit  for  scrap. 

1.50 

Hatch  plug,  for  refrigerator  car,  wooden, 
each,  applied*  no  credit  for  scrap  

1.50 

Iron  galvanized  per  Ib 

04 

Journal  bearings,  brass  or  bronze,  lined  or 
unlined,  per  Ib  ,  applied 

.18 

$0.13 

Journal   bearings,    filled   brass  or  bronze 
shell,  per  Ib.,  applied  
Journal   bearings;    weights  to  be  charged 
and  credited  as  follows  . 
1"  long  and  over,  but  not  8"  long  

.14 

Ibs. 
10 
13 

.10 

Ibs. 
6 

8 

10"    "      "      "            

20 
25 

12 
15 

Journal  bearings,  cast-steel  or  malleable- 
iron  back,  credit  for  scrap,  per  Ib  

.04 

Lauor  per  hour 

.24 

Lumber  —  yellow,  white  and  Norway  pine, 
poplar,  oak,  hickory  and  elm,  dressed  and 
framed,  per  ft.  B.  M.  required  to  make  the 

.03^ 

Nails  per  Ib 

03 

Paint,  lead,  freight  car,  mixed,  per  Ib  

.15 

"      mineral  freight  car,  mixed,  per  Ib. 

06 

Pipe  iHj-inch  per  ft 

03 

"     1-inch,  per  ft.          

.05 

"     l/^-inch  per  ft                              •  . 

07 

Steel  for  springs,  rough,  per  Ib  

.05 

.00^ 

"    helical  springs,  per  !b  

.03H 

.01 

"     pressed  and  flanged,  per  Ib  

M1A 

.Wl/2 

"    plate  and  structural,  per  Ib  

.03 

.OO1^ 

RULE  102.  Not  more  than  one  pound  of 
mineral  paint  can  be  charged  for  15  square  feet 
of  surface  covered,  and  not  more  than  one 
pound  of  lead  paint  for  12  square  feet  of  sur- 
face covered.  No  charge  to  be  made  for  let- 
tering. 

RULE  103.  Whenever  scrap  credits  are  al- 
lowable the  weights  of  scrap  credited  shall  be 


53 

RULE  103 — Continued. 

equal  to  the  weights  of  the  new  metal  applied, 
except  as  otherwise  provided  in  the  rules,  and 
except  in  the  case  of  scrap  M.  C.  B.  couplers, 
and  parts  of  same,  and  material  applied  on 
defect  cards,  in  which  cases  the  weight  and 
kind  of  metal  removed  shall  be  credited. 

RULE  104.  When  M.  C.  B.  coupler  parts  or 
metal  brake  beams  are  replaced,  good  second- 
hand material  may  be  used,  but  they  must  be 
charged  at  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  prices 
when  new.  The  credits  for  coupler  parts  re- 
leased from  service  in  good  condition  must 
be  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  prices  when 
new,  and  .similarly  the  credits  for  metal  brake 
beams  must  be  fifty  per  cent  of  the  prices  when 
new. 

In  the  case  of  defective  couplers,  when 
another  make  is  applied,  credits  shall  be  con- 
fined to  the  body,  lock,  knuckle  and  knuckle 
pin. 

RULE  105.  Manufactured  articles  not  in- 
cluded in  Rules  98  and  101  must  be  charged 
at  current  market  prices,  without  freight 
charges. 

RULE  106.  No  percentage  to  be  added  to 
either  material  or  labor. 

RULE  107.  The  following  table  shows  the 
number  of  hours  which  may  be  charged  for 
labor  in  doing  the  various  items  of  work 
enumerated,  which  includes  all  work  necessary 
to  complete  each  item  of  repairs,  except  in  so 
far  as  labor  is  already  included  in  charges  for 
materials : 


54 


RULE  107  —  Continued. 


ORDINARY 
CARS. 

REFRIGERATOR 
CARS. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Advertisements,  temporary,  tacked  on  cars, 
removing  per  car 

$0  50 

$0.50 
1.00 
.48 

.72 
.36 

.96 

2.88 

2.40 
4.32 

.48 

.96 
2.40 

2.88 
1.44 

.72 

.48 

.48 
.24 

.12 

.24 
.24 

.12 
.24 

.48 
.72 

Advertisements,  temporary,  pasted,  glued  or 
varnished  on  cars,  removing,  per  car  . 

1  00 

American  continuous  draft  rods,  one  rod, 
welding. 

2 
3 

P 

10 
8 
16 

2 

4 
10 

12 

3 

11A 
2 

2 
1 

H 

1 

JJM 

2 

3 

.48 

.72 
.36 
.96 
2.40 

1.92 
3.84 

.48 

.96 
2.40 

2.88 
.72 

.36 

.48 

.48 
.24 

.12 
.24 
.24 

.12 
.24 

.48 
.72 

2 

3 

1H 
4 
12 

10 
18 

2 

4 
10 

12 

6 

3 
2 

2 

1 

\ 

H 

2 
3 

Arch  bars,  1  or  2,  replaced  on  same  side  of 
truck.                               .            

Arch  bar,  blacksmith  labor,  each,  repairing.  . 
Axle,  bent,  straightening                .       

Bolster  body  composite  one,  replaced 

Bolster,   body,  plain  metal  or  wood,  one, 
replaced 

Bolster,   body,   metal,  one,  replaced  when 
draft  timbers  extend  through  same  ...... 
Bolster,   body,   plain  metal  or  wood,   one, 
^replaced  when  one  or  more  defective  sills 
are  replaced    

Bolster,  composite,  one,  replaced  when  one 
or  more  defective  sills  are  replaced  

Bolster,  truck,  one,  replaced    

Bolster,  truck,  one,  and  one  spring  plank  in 
same  truck,  replaced  

Braces  side  or  end,  one,  renewed 

Braces,  side  or  end,  each,  renewed,  when 
associated  with  the  renewal  of  posts.  
Brake  beam,  one,  replaced,  including  attach- 
ments and  connections 

Brake  beam,  one,  metal,  blacksmith  labor 
repairing  

Brake  beam,  wooden  truss,  repairing  
Brake  connection  rod  or  lever,  one  or  both 
applied 

Brake  connection  repaired  and  replaced  
Brake  hanger,  repaired  and  replaced  

Brake  shoe,  applied  on  authority   of   defect 
card,  when  brake  beam  is  not  replaced  
Buffer  block,  one,  cast-iron,  replacing  

Bolts- 
Carrier  iron  bolts,  three  or  less,  at  one  end  of 
car,  applied 

Carrier  iron  bolts,  all  at  one  end  of  car,  applied. 

55 


RULE  107  —  Continued. 


ORDINARY 
CARS. 

REFRIGERATOR 
CARS. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Carrier  iron  bolts,  6  inches  or  less,  each  

H 

3 
3 

2 

y2 

3 
2 

3 

1 

3 

3 

5 
H 

3 

m 

5 

m 

VA 

3 
1 

$0.06 

.72 
.72 

.48 
.12 

.72 
.48 

.72 

.24 
.72 

.72 

1.20 
.12 
.72 

.36 
1.20 
.36 
.60 

.72 
.24 

M 

3 
3 

2 
X 
3 
2 

3 
1 

$0.06 

.72 
.72 

.48 
.12 
.72 

.48 

.72 
.24 

Center-plate  bolts,  where  same  do  not  pass 
through  draft  timber,  one  or  more,  or  all  at 
same  end. 

Center-plate  bolt  or  bolts  and  center  plate, 
replacing,  on  one  end  of  car          

NOTE.  —  If  center  plate  bolt  or  bolts  pass 
through  draft  timbers  it  must  be  termed  center 
plate  bolt  and  charged  three  hours. 

Column  bolts,  one  or  more,  replaced  in  same 
truck  

Coupler  stop  bolts,  lug  strap  bolts  or  draft 
timber  cross-tie  bolts,  5  or  less,  at  same  end 
of  car,  when  coupler  is  not  replaced,  each.  . 
Coupler  stop  bolts,  lug  strap  bolts  or  draft 
timber  cross-tie  bolts,  6  or  more,  at  same 
end  of  car,  when  coupler  is  not  replaced  .... 
Draft  timber  bolts,  or  carrier  iron  bolts,  either 
or  both,  three  or  less,  at  one  end  of  car, 
replacing  

Draft  timber  bolts,  or  carrier  iron  bolts,  either 
or  both,  four  or  more,  at  one  end  of  car, 
replacing  

Journal  box  bolt,  one  or  two,  replaced,  same 
box     

Carlin,  one,  replaced 

Column  castings,  one  or  both,  replaced  on 
same  side  of  truck 

3 

5 

X 
3 

IH 

'    5 

1M 
VA 

3 
1 

.72 

1.20 
.12 
.72 

.36 
1.20 
.36 
.60 

.72 
.24 

Column  castings,  two,  replaced  on  opposite 
sides  of  same  trucks 

Center  pin  (head),  applied,  empty  car 

Center  pin  (head),  applied,  loaded  car  

Center  pin  (head),  applied,  empty  car,  and 
putting  same  end  on  center 

Center  pin  (head),  applied,  loaded  car,  and 
putting  same  end  on  center 

Center  pin  (key1),  applied,  empty  car,  including 
placing  the  same  end  on  center,  if  necessary  . 
Center  pin  (key),  applied,  loaded  car,  including 
placing  same  end  on  center,  if  necessary.  . 
Center  plates,  one  or  two,  at  same  end,  re- 
placing.    

Corner  iron,  one,  replaced. 

56 


RULE  107  —  Continued. 


Coupler,  with  stem  attachments,  coupler 
springs,  one  or  more  follower  plates,  Ameri- 
can continuous  draft  key,  American  continu- 
ous draft  rods,  one  or  more  coupler  stops, 
renewing  or  replacing  any  or  all,  at  same 
end  of  car,  at  same  time 

Coupler,  with  pocket  attachments,  coupler 
spring,  one  or  more  follower  plates,  one  or 
more  coupler  stops,  coupler  pocket,  coupler 
pocket  rivets,  renewing  or  replacing  any  or 

all,  at  same  end  of  car  at  same  time 

(This  does   not  include   coupler  stops, 

riveted,  ^yhich  should  be  charged  for  on  a  per 

rivet  basis  in  addition  to  the  cost  of  removing 

and  replacing  coupler  when  it  is  necessary  to 

do  the  riveting.) 

Cross-tie  timber,  one.  replaced 

Cross-tie  timber,  one,  replaced  when  one  or 
more  defective  sills  are  replaced 

Dead  block,  wooden,  replacing  at  one  end  of 
car 

Door,  end,  old,  rehanging 

Door,  side,  old,  rehanging 

Draft  timber,  one,  replaced 

Draft  timbers,  two,  on  same  end,  replaced 

Draft  timber,  one,  extending  beyond  body 
bolster,  renewed 

Draft  timbers,  two,  extending  beyond  body 
bolster,  renewed 

Draft  timber,  one,  renewed,  when  its  center 
sill  is  renewed  or  spliced  at  same  end  of  car. . 

Draft  timber,  one,  renewed,  when  its  opposite 
center  sill  at  same  end  of  car  is  renewed  or 
spliced 

End  plank,  one,  renewed  on  gondola  car. 

Without  angle  irons 

With  angle  irons,  bolted 

With  angle  iron,  riveted 

End  planks,  two,  renewed  on  same  end: 

Without  angle  irons 

With  angle  irons,  bolted 

With  angle  irons,  riveted 

End  planks,  three,  renewed  on  same  end: 
Without  angle  irons 


ORDINARY 
CARS. 


Hours. 


Charge 

for 
Labor. 


$0.72 


.72 
.24 

.72 

.12 

.24 

1.68 

2.40 

2.40 
3.12 

.48 

.72 

.48 

.72 

1.20 

.60 

.84 

1.32 

.72 


REFRIGERATOR 
CARS. 


57 


RULE  107  —  Continued. 


ORDINARY 
CARS. 

REFRIGERATOR 
CARS. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

With  angle  irons  bolted 

4 

$0  96 

With  angle  irons,  riveted  

6 

VA 
VA 
VA 
12 

H 
1A 

2 
3 

4 

5 
2 

y± 
x 

1A 
3 

2 
4 
H 

1.44 

.84 
1.08 
1.56 
2.88 
.12 
.06 
.48 
.72 

.96 

1.20 

.48 

.06 

.06 
.06 
.24 

.72 

.48 
.96 
.12 

.07 

.09 

End  planks,  four,  renewed  on  same  end: 
Without  angle  irons  

With  angle  irons,  bolted 

With  angle  irons,  riveted  

'l4" 

» 

3 
4 

5 

2 

1A 

$ 

6 

VA 
6 

y* 

$3  '.36'* 
.12 

.06 

.48 
.72 

.96 

1.20 

.48 

.06 

.06 
.06 
.24 

1.44 

.84 
1.44 
.12 
.07 

.09 
1.44 
2.40 

End  plate,  one,  replaced  

Handhold,  removed  and  straightened,  one.  . 
Handholds,  straightened  on  car,  one  or  two. 
Journal  box,  one,  replaced  
Journal  boxes,  two,  on  same  axle,  replaced  
Journal  box,  one  or  two,  replaced  on  same 
axle,  solid  pedestal  truck 

Journal  box,  three  or  four,  replaced,  same 
truck,  sojid  pedestal  truck 

Journals,  truing  up  one  or  two,  on  same  axle.  . 
Nuts,  only,  £  inch  and  under,  replacing  four 
or  less. 

Nuts,  only,  1  inch  to  If,  inclusive,  replacing 
one  or  two 

Nuts,  only,  1£  inch  and  over,  replacing  one.  . 
Platform  plank,  one,  replaced 

Posts,  corner,  door,  end  or  side,  each,  renewed 
on  empty  car 

Posts,  corner,  door,  end  or  side,  each,  renewed, 
where  associated  with  renewal  of  side  sill  or 
inside  end  sill,  side  or  end  plate  
Posts,  corner,  door,  end  or  side,  one  renewed 
on  loaded  car 

Releasing  rod  for  M.  C.  B.  coupler,  one,  re- 
placed 

Roof  boards,  single,  including  removing  and 
replacing  running  board,  per  lineal  foot  .... 
Roof  boards,  double  board  roof,  including  re- 
moving and  replacing  running  board,  per 
lineal  foot  

Running  board,  complete,  applied  
Spring  plank,  one,  replaced          

6 
10 

4 

7 
8 

51A 

1.44 
2.40 

.96 
1.68 
1.92 

1.32 

6 
10 

Side  plank,  one,  renewed  on  gondola  car: 
Without  angle  irons  
With  angle  irons,  bolted 

With  angle  irons  riveted 

Side  planks,  two,  renewed  on  same  side: 
Without  angle  irons. 

58 


RULE  107 — Continued. 


ORDINARI 
CARS. 

REFRIGERATOR 

CARS. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Hours. 

Charge 
for 
Labor. 

Side  planks,  two,  with  angle  irons,  bolted  

8 
9 

7 
9 
10 

&A 
10 
11 
25 

8 

$  1.92 
2.16- 

1.68 
2.16 
2.40 

2.04 
2.40 
2.64 
6.00 
1.92 
.15 

Side  planks,  three,  renewed  on  same  side: 
Without  angle  irons  
With  angle  irons,  bolted 

With  angle  irons,  riveted 

Side  planks,  four,  renewed  on  same  side: 
Without  angle  irons 

With  angle  irons  riveted 

"35" 
15 

20 
26 
47 
68 
17 
7 

4 
11 
2 

3 
43 
59 
69 
79 
63 
84 
73 
94 
83 
104 
93 
114 
14 

i's'.io" 

3.60 
.15 

.20 

4.80 
6.24 
11.28 
16.32 
4.08 
1.68 

.96 
2.64 

.48 

.72 
10.32 
14.16 
16.56 
18.96 
15.12 
20.16 
17.52 
22.56 
19.92 
24.96 
22.32 
27.36 
3.36 

Side  plate,  one,  applied  
Side  plate,  one,  spliced  
Siding,  removed  and  replaced,  per  lineal  foot.  . 
Siding,  removed  and  replaced,  per  lineal  foot, 
where  nails  are  set  and  holes  puttied  . 

SILLS. 

1  center  sill,  spliced,  per  end.  
2  center  sills  spliced  same  end. 

16 
22 
35 
41 
15 
7 

3 
10 
2 

3 
32 
38 
44 
50 
41 
47 
46 
53 
51 
63 
63 
68 
11 

3.84 
5.28 
8.40 
9.84 
3.60 
1.68 

.72 
2.40 

.48 

.72 
7.68 
9.12 
10.56 
12.00 
9.84 
11.28 
11.04 
12.72 
12.24 
15.12 
15.12 
16.32 
2.64 

1  center  sill,  renewed        

2  center  sills  renewed                                 .   . 

1  end  sill  under  siding,  renewed  

1  end  sill  outside  siding  renewed 

1  end  sill  under  siding,  renewed  where  one  or 
more  defective  sills  are  renewed  
1  end  sill  under  siding,  renewed,  where  one  or 
more  defective  sills  are  spliced  
1  end  sill  outside  siding,  renewed  when  one  or 
more  defective  sills  have  been  renewed.  .  .  . 
1  end  sill,  outside  siding,  renewed,  when  one  or 
more  defective  Sills  have  been  spliced  
1  intermediate  sill,  renewed  
2                      sills        "           .... 

4                         «          "         

1                       sill  and  1  center  sill,  renewed. 
1                                    2            sills 
2                      sills         1            sill 
2                                   2            sills 
3                         "1            sill 
3                         "          2             sills 
4                                    1      "      sill 
2     "       sills 
1                      sill,  spliced  

59 


RULE  107 — Continued. 


ORDINARY 

REFRIGERATOR 

CARS. 

CARS. 

Charge 

Charge 

Hours. 

for 

Hours 

for 

Labor. 

Labor. 

1  side  sill  and  1  center  sill,  renewed  

51 

$12.24 

68 

$16.32 

1 

"   2             sills,               

56 

13.44 

89 

21.36- 

2 

sills  "   1      "      sill          "       

71 

17.04 

89 

21.36 

2 

"      "2      "      sills        "       

74 

17.76 

110 

26.40 

1 

sill,  spliced  ,.  

12 

2.88 

15 

3.60 

"    renewed.    .               

25 

6.00 

44 

10  56 

2 

sills,  renewed  

40 

9.60 

65 

15.60 

1  s 

de  sill  and  1  intermediate  sill,  renewed.  .  . 

47 

11.28 

63 

15.12 

1 

"  2 

sills, 

53 

12.72 

73 

17.52 

1 

"   3 

" 

59 

14.16 

83 

19.92 

1 

"   4 

« 

65 

15.60 

93 

22.32 

2 

"    1 

sill                '.'.'. 

61 

14.64 

84 

20.16 

2 

"   2 

sills 

67 

16.08 

94 

22.56 

2 

"   3 

" 

73 

17.52 

104 

24.96 

2 

"  4 

" 

79 

18.96 

114 

27.36 

1 

1  intermediate  an 

d  1  center  sill,  renewed 

56 

13.44 

84 

20.16 

2 

1 

77 

18.48 

105 

25.20 

1 

2 

61 

14.64 

94 

22.56 

2 

2 

79 

18.96 

115 

27.60 

1 

3 

66 

15.84 

104 

24.96 

2 

3 

84 

20.16 

125 

30.00 

1 

4                       1 

71 

17.04 

114 

27.36 

2 

4 

1 

89 

21.36 

135 

32.40 

1 

j 

2           si  s 

61 

14.64 

105 

25.20 

2  sid 

e  1  intermediate  BE 

d  2  center  si  s.renewed 

79 

18.96 

126 

30.24 

1 

2 

2 

66 

15,84 

115 

27.60 

1 

3 

2 

72 

17.28 

125 

30.00 

1 

4 

2 

77 

18.48 

135 

32.40 

2 

2 

2 

84 

20.16 

136 

32.64 

2 

3 

2 

89 

21.36 

146 

35.04 

2 

4 

2 

94 

22.56 

156 

37.44 

Each  side  or  intermediate  sill,  spliced,  when 

longitudinal  sills  have  to  be  renewed,  or 

when  other  sills  are  spliced  at  same  end  .... 
1  center  sill,  spliced,  when  intermediate  or 

3 

.72 

3 

.72 

side  sills  have  to  be  renewed  

8 

1.92 

9 

2.16 

1  center  sill,  spliced,  when  other  center  sill  has 

to  be  renewed  

6 

1.44 

7 

1.68 

Stakes,  end  or  side,  on  gondola  cars,  applied, 

each 

.36 

Truck  springs,  one  or  all,  in  same  truck, 

replacing  

2 

.48 

2 

.48 

Truck  transom,  one,  wood,  replaced 

10 

2.40 

10 

2.40 

Truck  transoms,  two,  wood,  replaced  in  same 

truck  

12 

2.88 

12 

2.88 

60 


RULE  107  —  Continued. 


ORDINARY 

REFRIGERATOR 

CARS. 

CARS. 

Charge 

Charge 

Hours. 

for 

Hours. 

for 

Labor. 

Labor. 

Weighing  and   re-stenciling  stock   cars,    $1 

net. 

Weighing  and   re-stenciling  other   cars,   75 

cents  net. 

1 

When  necessary  to  remove  load  to  replace 

body  center  plate,  bolt  or  bolts,  one  or  two 
draft  timbers,  or  draft  timber  bolts,  at  one 

end  of  car  

3 

$0.72 

3 

$0.72 

REPAIRS  OP  STEEL  OR  STEEL  PARTS  OF  COMPOSITE  CARS. 

All  rivets  \  inch  diameter  or  over,  12  cents  net  per  rivet,  which  covers  removal 
and  replacing  of  rivets,  including  removing,  fitting,  punching  or  drilling 
holes  when  applying  patches  or  splicing  and  replacing  damaged  parts,  not 
to  include  straightening. 

All  rivets  \  inch  diameter  and  less  than  \  inch  diameter,  7  cents  net  per  rivet, 
which  covers  removal  and  replacing  of  rivets,  including  removing,  fitting, 

Sunching  or  drilling  holes  when  applying  patches  or  splices  and  replacing 
amaged  parts,  not  to  include  straightening. 
Straightening  or  repairing  parts  removed  from  damaged  car,  60  cents  per  100 

pounds. 
Straightening  or  repairing  parts  in  place  on  damaged  car;  also  any  part  that 

requires  straightening,  repairing  or  renewing,  not  included  on  rivet  basis, 

24  cents  per  hour. 
In  making  repairs  to  cars  on  a  rivet  basis,  the  cost  of  removing  and  replacing 

fixtures  not  secured  by  rivets,  but  necessarily  removed  in  order  to  repair 

or  renew  adjacent  defective  parts,  should  be  in  addition  to  the  rivet  basis; 

rules  covering  wood-car  repairs  to  govern. 

RULE  108.  No  charge  to  be  made  for  labor 
of  replacing  or  applying  M.  C.  B.  knuckles, 
knuckle  locks,  knuckle  pins,  clevises,  clevis 
pins,  lift  chains,  brake  shoes  or  brake-shoe 
keys,  or  applying  side  and  end  doors,  except 
on  the  authority  of  a  defect  card. 

No  charge  to  be  made  for  adjusting  brakes. 

RULE  109.  When  it  is  necessary  to  apply  an 
M.  C.  B.  coupler  complete,  on  account  of  a 
broken  or  missing  knuckle  or  lock,  the  usual 


61 

RULE  109 — Continued. 

labor  charge  for   replacing  a   coupler  can  be 

made. 

When  one  or  more  carrier  iron  bolts  over 
six  inches  long  are  replaced,  where  pocket 
coupler  at  same  end  of  car  is  removed  and 
replaced,  the  regular  labor  charge  should  be 
reduced  one  hour,  except  when  one  or  both 
draft  timbers  are  replaced. 

RULE  no.  No  additional  labor  to  be  charged 
for: 

Applying  end  sheathing  when  end  plate  or 
end  sill  under  sheathing  is  renewed  or  re- 
placed, also  side  sheathing  when  side  sill  or 
side  plate  is  removed  or  replaced. 

Applying  center  pins  or  friction  rollers  or 
putting  car  on  center  when  center  plates  or 
center-plate  bolts  are  applied  at  same  end. 

Applying  dead  block  or  platform  plank  when 
end  sill  is  applied  at  same  end. 

Applying  coupler  when  draft  timber,  one  or 
both,  is  applied  at  the  same  end. 

Applying  brake  hangers  when  brake  beam  is 
applied. 

RULE  in.  The  following  table  shows  the 
labor  charges  allowable  for  air-brake  repair 
work.  The  letters  "  R.  &  R."  mean  "  removed 
and  replaced  "  : 

Cents. 

Air  hose,  R.  &  R 3 

Angle  cock,  R.  &  R 7 

Angle  cock  handle,  R.  &  R 4 

Angle  cock,  grinding  in,  R.  &  R. 28 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

Cents. 

Check  valve  case,  spring,  gasket,  or  all,  R. 
&  R.  ) 10 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting  union 3 

Check  valve  case   (two  cap  screws) ...     2 
Emergency  valve   seat 5 

Total 10 

Coupler  dummy,  R.  &  R.  (l  lag  screw) i 

Cut-out  cock,  R.  &  R 9 

DETAILS.  Cents. 


1  pipe  union   disconnected. 

2  pipe  connections 


Total 9 

Cut-out  cock,  grinding  in,  R.  &  R 30 

Cut-out  cock  handle,  R.  &  R 4 

Cylinder,  R.  &  R 30 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Push  rod  (i  connecting  pin) 3 

Clamping  piston  ( i  cap  screw) 2 

Cylinder  head,  R.  &  R.  (4  nuts,  l/2 

inch,  i  cent  each) 4 

Disconnecting  cylinder  from  reservoir 

(7  nuts,  K  inch,  i  cent  each) ...  7 
Reclamping  cylinder  piston  (i  cap 

screw)  2 

Removing  cylinder  from  car  (6  nuts, 

Y%  inch,  2  cents  each) 12 

Total 3° 

Cylinder  and  reservoir,  R.  &  R 41 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  push  rod  (i  connecting  pin)  3 

Removing  cylinder  head  (4  nuts,  Yi 

inch,  i  cent  each) 4 

Removing  cylinder  from  car  (6  nuts, 

54  inch,  2  cents  each) 12 

Removing  reservoir  from  car  (2  nuts, 

54  inch,  2  cents  each) 4 

Removing  release  rods  (2  spring  cot- 
ters)    4 

Removing  release  valve 2 

Removing   two    plugs 2         . 

Removing  triple  (2  nuts,  §4  inch,  2 

cents  each)  4 

Disconnecting  train  pipe  union 3 

Disconnecting  retaining  pipe  unions. .  3 

Total 41 

Cents. 
Cylinder  and  reservoir,  tightening  when 

loose  (8  nuts,  I  cent  each) 8 

Cylinder  cleaned,  oiled,  tested  and  stenciled, 

including  obliterating  old  stencil  marks . .  33 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  push  red  (i  connecting  pin)     3 

Clamping  piston  (i  cap  screw) 2 

Removing    cylinder    head    (4    nuts,    ^ 

inch,   i   cent  each) 4 

Cleaning,   testing  and  stenciling 24 

Total 33        . 

Cylinder  release  spring,  R.  &  R n 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  push  rod  (i  connecting  pin)  3 
Clamping  cylinder  piston  (i  cap 

screw)  2 

Removing  cylinder  head  (4  nuts,  Yz 

inch,  i  cent  each) 4 

Reclamping  cylinder  head  (i  cap 

screw)     2 

Total ii 

Cylinder  gasket,  R.  &  R 25 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting   triple    union 3 

Disconnecting  retaining  pipe  union.  .  .      3 
Disconnecting  reservoir  block   (2  nuts, 

5^   inch,  2  cents  each) 4 

Disconnecting   reservoir    from    cylinder 

(7  nuts,    y-2.   inch,   i   cent  each)  ...      7 
Removing  push  rod  (i  connecting  pin)      3 

Clamping   cylinder   piston i 

Removing  release   rods    (2    spring  cot- 
ters)          4 

*  — 

Total 25 

Cents. 

Emergency  check  valve,  grinding  in 10 

Emergency  valve  piston,  R.  &  R 10 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting  union 3 

Removing    check    valve     case     (2    cap 

screws)     2 

Removing  emergency  valve  seat 5 


Emergency  valve  seat,  R.  &  R.   (see  E.  V. 
piston)    10 

Emergency  valve,  rubber  seat,  R.  &  R 10 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting   union 3 

9        Removing    check    valve     case     (2    cap 

screws)    2 

Removing  riveted  pin 4 

Removing  emergency  valve   nut i 


Cylinder  piston  packing,  R.  &  R. .'. 13 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  push  rod  (i  connecting  pin)  3 

Clamping  cylinder  piston  (i  cap  screw)  2 
Removing    cylinder    head    (4    nuts,    ^ 

inch,    i    cent  each) 4 

Removing  leather  packing    (4  nuts,    y2 

inch,    i    cent  each) 4 

Total 13 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

Cents. 
Cylinder  piston,  R.  &  R 15 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  push  rod  (i  connecting  pin)  3 

Clamping  cylinder  piston  (i  cap  screw)  2 
Removing    cylinder    head    (4    nuts,    y2 

inch,    i    cent   each) 4 

Removing  leather  packing   (4  nuts,    Y-Z 

inch,    i    cent  each) 4 

Reclamping     cylinder     piston     (i     cap 

screw)     2 

Total 15 

.Dirt    collectors     in    branch    pipe,    cleaned, 

drained  and  stenciled 5 

Gasket,  coupling,  R.  &  R ^ 2 

Graduating  nut,  stem,  spring,  or  all,  R.  &  R.  2 

Oil  plugs,  R.  &  R.,  each 2 

Packing    leather    expander,    R.    &    R.    (see 

cylinder   piston)    7 

Pipe,   train   or   branch,    R.   &  R.,   for   each 

connection  made   3 

Push  rod,  R.  &  R.  (i  connecting  pin) 3 

Release  valve,  R.  &  R 6 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting    release    rod     (2     spring 

cotters)     4 

Disconnecting  release   valve 2 

Total 6 

Release   valve,    removed,    repaired    and    re- 
placed (R.  &  R.,  4  cents) 9 

Release   valve   rod,   removed,   repaired   and 
replaced   3 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

i   spring  cotter 2 

Removing   staple    i 

Total „  „      3 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

Cents. 

Reservoir,  R.  &  R 29 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Removing  from  car    (2   nuts,   fy$    inch, 

2  cents  each) 4 

Disconnecting   from   cylinder    (7    nuts, 

Yz  inch,  i  cent  each) 7 

Removing  release   rods    (2   spring   cot- 
ters)      4 

Removing  release  valve 2 

Removing  two  plugs 2 

Removing    triple    valve     (2    nuts,     §-£ 

inch,  2  cents  each) 4 

Disconnecting  union 3 

Disconnecting  union,    retaining  pipe.  .  3       . 


Removing  cylinder  cap  (3  nuts,  ]/2  inch,  I 
cent  each)  3 

Removing  slide  valve  (3  nuts,  y2  inch,  I 
cent  each)  : 3 

Retaining  valve  repaired 25 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Retaining  valve,  handle,  R.  &  R 2 

Retaining  valve  case,  R.  &  R i 

Retaining   valve,    ground   in 5 

Retaining  valve  cock  key,  ground  in..  15 
Retaining   valve    cock   key   and   spring, 

R.  &  R 2 

Total 25 

Retaining  valve,  R.  &  R.  (2  lag  screws  2 
cents,  valve  3  cents) 5 

Slide  valve,  removed,  ground  in  and  re- 
placed    33 

Slide  valve  spring,  R.  &  R 6 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Cylinder  cap   (3  cap  screws) 2 

Removing  riveted  pin 4 

Total 6 

Strainer,  R.  &  R.  (disconnecting  union) 3 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

Cents. 

Triple-cylinder    bushing,    reground    or    re- 
fitted   $1.12 

Triple  cylinder  cap,   R.   &  R.    (3  nuts,   */2 
inch,  i  cent  each) 3 

Triple  cylinder  cap  gasket,  R.  &  R.  (3  nuts, 
y*  inch,  i  cent  each) 3 

Triple  piston  packing  ring,  fitted 22 

Triple  valve,  removed,  cleaned,  oiled,  tested 
and  stenciled    40 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Train  pipe  union   disconnected 3 

Retaining  pipe  union  disconnected....  3 
Removing   triple    (2    nuts,    §^    inch,    2 

cents  each)    4 

Check  valve  case    (2  cap  screws) 2 

Emergency  valve  seat 5 

Cylinder   cap    (3   bolts) 3 

Cleaning,  testing  and  stenciling 20 

Total 40 

Triple  valve  gasket,  R.  &  R 10 

DETAILS.  Cents. 

Disconnecting  branch  pipe  union 3 

Disconnecting  retaining  pipe   union.  .  .      3 
Removing   triple    (2    nuts,    fy&    inch,    2 

cents  each)    4 


Unions  disconnected  and  connected 3 

The  following  basic  units  were  used  in  de- 
termining the  details  of  prices  given  above. 
These  units  are  not  to  be  used  in  rendering 
bills,  but  may  be  used  in  the  determination  of 
cost  of  other  combinations  of  air-brake  repairs 
not  above  mentioned. 


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RULE  in  —  Continued. 

Cents. 
Cap  screws  or  studs  or  bolts,  R.  &  R., 

1  or  more 2 

Cylinder  cleaning,  testing  and  stencil- 
ing       24 

Emergency  valve  seat,  R.  &  R 5 

Graduating  stem  nut,  R.   &  R 2 

Lag  or  wood  screws,  R.   &  R.,  each.  .  i 

Nuts  tightened  when  loose,  each i 

Nuts,    %    inch   or  less,    R.   &   R.,    i    or 

2  on   same   bolt i 

Nuts,   §4   inch  or  over,  R.   &  R.,   i   or 

2  on  same  bolt 2 

Pins  connecting  R.  &  R.  (including 

split  key)  3 

Pins  riveted,  R.  &  R.,  each 4 

Plugs,  oil,  R.  &  R.,  each i 

Spring  cotters,  R.  &  R.,  .each 2 

Staples,  R.  &  R.,  each i 

Testing  air  (after  repairs) 5 

Threads  on  pipe,  cutting,  per  coupling  5 
Train  or  branch  pipe,  disconnected 

and  connected,  or  only  connected, 

each  connection  3 

Triple  valve,  cleaning,  testing  and 

stenciling  20 

Union  disconnected  and  connected...  3 

SETTLEMENT  FOR  CARS. 

RULE  112.  The  company  on  whose  line  the 
bodies  or  trucks  are  destroyed  shall  report  the 
fact  to  the  owner  immediately  after  their 
destruction,  and  shall  have  its  option  whether 
to  rebuild  or  settle  for  the  same. 

RULE  113.  For  the  mutual  advantage  of  rail- 
way companies  interested,  the  settlement  for  a 
car  owned  or  controlled  by  a  railway  company, 
when,  damaged  or  destroyed  upon  a  private 
track,  shall  be  assumed  by  the  railway  com- 
pany delivering  the  car  upon  such  tracks. 

RULE  114.  If  the  company  on  whose  line  the 
car  is  destroyed  elects  to  rebuild  either  body 


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RULE  114  —  Continued. 

or  trucks,  or  both,  the  original  plan  of  con- 
struction must  be  followed,  and  the  original 
kind  and  qualities  of  materials  used.  In  such 
cases  no  allowance  shall  be  made  for  better- 
ments. 

RULE  115.  If  only  the  body  of  a  car  is  de- 
stroyed, and  the  company  destroying  it  elects 
to  return  the  trucks,  they  shall  be  put  in  good 
order,  or  accompanied  by  a  defect  card,  cover- 
ing all  defects  or  improper  repairs  made  by 
them  for  which  owners  are  not  responsible, 
and  forwarded,  within  60  days,  free  of  freight 
or  other  charges,  to  the  nearest  point  on  the 
line  of  the  company  owning  or  operating  the 
car,  and  the  number,  line  and  class  of  car 
destroyed  shall  be  stenciled  or  painted  on  each 
truck  so  returned. 

Except  in  case  of""  trucks  of  50,000  pounds 
capacity  or  less,  when  railroad  destroying  the 
car  may  elect  to  retain  the  trucks  and  settle 
for  them  (with  the  exception  of  the  wheels) 
at  xscrap  or  secondhand  value,  in  accordance 
with  M.  C.  B.  rules,  except  those  belonging  to 
cars  of  individual  ownership. 

RULE  116.  The  settlement  prices  of  new 
eight-wlieel  cars  shall  be  as  follows,  with  an 
addition  of  $27.50  for  each  car  equipped  with 
8-inch  air-brake  equipment  and  $35  for  lo-inch 
air-brake  equipment.  The  road  destroying  a 
car  with  air  brakes  may  elect  to  return  the  air- 
brake apparatus,  including  such  attachments  as 


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RULE  116  —  Continued. 

are  usually  furnished  by  the  air-brake  manu- 
facturer, complete  and  in  good  condition : 

BODIES  OF  8-WHEEL  CARS. 
Wood. 

Box,  40  feet  long  or  over $440.00 

Box,  36  feet  long  or  over,  but  under  40 
feet  385.00 

Box,  34  feet  long  or  over,  but  under  36 
feet  360.00 

Box,  32  feet  long  or  over,  but  under  34 
feet  330.00 

Box,  under  32  feet  long 265.00 

Box,  ventilated,  40  feet  long  or  over.  .  .   470.00 

Box,  ventilated,  36  feet  long,  but  under 
40  feet  415.00 

Box,  ventilated,  34  feet  long,  but  under 
36  feet  385.00 

Flat,  plain,  40  feet  long  or  over 200.00 

Flat,  plain,  32  feet  long  or  over,  but 
under  40  feet 155.00 

Flat,  plain,  under  32  feet  long no.oo 

Gondola,  drop-bottom,  40  tons  capacity 
or  over 330.00 

Gondola,  drop-bottom,  30  tons  capacity 

or  over,  but  under  40  tons. 300.00 

Gondola,  drop-bottom,  25  tons  capacity 
or  over,  but  under  30  tons 275.00 

Gondola,  drop-bottom,  20  tons  capacity 
or  under 200.00 

Gondola,  hopper-bottom,  50  tons  ca- 
pacity    440.00 

Gondola,  hopper-bottom,  40  tons  ca- 
pacity or  over,  but  under  50  tons.  ....  360.00 

Gondola,  hopper-bottom,  30  tons  ca- 
pacity or  over,  but  under  40  tons 330.00 

Gondola,  hopper-bottom,  25  tons  ca- 
pacity or  over,  but  under  30  tons 290.00 

Gondola,  hopper-bottom,  20  tons  ca- 
pacity or  less 220.00 


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RULE  1 1 6  —  Co n tinned. 

Gondola,    plain,    50    tons    capacity    and 

over  $350.00 

Gondola,  plain,  40  tons  capacity,  but 

under  50  tons 300.00 

Gondola,  plain,  30  tons  capacity,  but 

under  40  tons 275.00 

Gondola,  plain,  25  tons  capacity,  but 

under  30  tons  250.00 

Gondola,  plain,  under  25  tons 140.00 

Stock,  34  feet  long  or  over 330.00 

Stock,  32  feet  long  or  over,  but  under 

34  feet  300.00 

Stock,  under  32  feet  long 265.00 

The  lengths  of  cars  above  mentioned  refer 
to  the  lengths  over  the  end  sills. 

In  the  case  of  double-deck  stock  cars,  $25.00 
may  be  added  to  the  prices  given  above  for 
stock  cars. 

Where  the  capacity  of  any  car  other  than  a 
gondola  is  60,000  pounds  or  over,  10  per  cent 
should  be  added  to  the  above  prices  for  the 
car  bodies. 

When  cars  of  60,000  pounds  capacity  or  over, 
and  so  stenciled,  have  trucks  with  journals  4 
inches  or  over  in  diameter  when  new,  $40  per 
car  shall  be  added  to  the  figure  as  given  above 
for  the  values  of  car  bodies,  when  equipped 
with  metal  body  bolsters. 

When  cars  are  equipped  with  metal  center 
sills,  the  following  prices  shall  be  added  to  the 
values  of  bodies  for  cost  of  such  metal  sills: 

10  inches  or  less $  60.00 

Over  10  inches  80.00 

When  a  car  is  equipped  with  two  metal  draft 
members  not  less  than  7  inches  in  depth  con- 


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RULE  1 16  —  Continued. 

tinuous  from  end  to  end  of  car,  in  combination 
with  metal  needle  beams,  $40.00  shall  be  added 
to  the  value  of  the  body  of  the  car  for  the 
cost  of  such  metal  draft  members. 

Steel. 

Box,  wooden  body,  metal  underframe, 
50  tons  capacity,  38  feet  6  inches  or 
over,  over  end  sills $825.00 

Box,  wooden  body,  metal  underframe, 
less  than  50  tons  capacity,  36  feet  long 
or  over  740.00 

Flat,  wooden  floor,  metal  underframe, 
30  tons  capacity,  34  feet  long  or  over.  500.00 

Flat,  wooden  floor,  metal  underframe,  50 
tons  capacity,  40  feet  over  end  sills. . .  770.00 

Flat,  wooden  floor,  metal  underframe, 
40  tons  capacity,  40  feet  over  end  sills  590.00 

Flat,  wooden  floor,  metal  underframe, 
40  tons  or  over,  but  under  50  tons, 
34  feet  long  over  end  sills,  but  under 
40  feet  510.00 

Gondola,  all  metal,  twin-drop  bottom, 
40  tons  capacity,  but  less  than  50  tons 
capacity,  36  feet,  but  under  40  feet . . .  790.00 

Gondola,  all  metal,  hopper-bottom,  50 
tons  capacity,  33  feet  over  end  sills..  825.00 

Gondola,  all  metal,  drop-bottom,  50  tons 

capacity,  40  feet  over  end  sills 815.00 

Gondola,  all  metal,  plain,  50  tons  ca- 
pacity, 40  feet  over  end  sills 790.00 

Gondola,  wooden  body,  metal  under- 
frame,  flat-bottom,  40  feet  over  end 
sills  790.00 

Gondola,  wooden  body,  metal  under- 
frame,  hopper-bottom,  32  feet  over 
end  sills,  but  under  40  feet 650.00 

Stock,  wooden  body,  metal  underframe, 
less  than  50  tons  capacity,  36  feet  long 
or  over  715.00 


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RULE  1 16  —  Continued. 

TRUCKS. 

50,000   pounds    capacity    and    less,    with 

metal   transoms    and   wooden  bolster, 

per  pair  $215.00 

60,000  pounds  capacity  or  under,  with 

wooden  bolster,  per  pair 215.00 

50,000  pounds  capacity,  all-metal  trucks, 

per  pair 225.00 

60,000  pounds  capacity  but  under  80,000 

pounds,  all  metal,  per  pair 315.00 

70,000  pounds  capacity,  but  under  80,000 

pounds,  with  wooden  bolster,  per  pair  215.00 
80,000  pounds  capacity  but  under  100,000 

pounds,  all  metal,  per  pair 400.00 

100,000  pounds  capacity,  or  over,  all 

metal,  per  pair 425.00 

Prices  include  brake  beams,  complete,  truck 
levers,  dead-lever  guides  and  bottom-connec- 
tion rods. 

For  trucks  with  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels  an 
additional  allowance  of  $112  per  car  shall  be 
made. 

All  trucks  in  service  of  60,000  pounds  capac- 
ity or  over,  which  consist  entirely  of  metal, 
with  the  exception  of  the  spring  plank,  shall 
be  known  hereafter  as  all-metal  trucks. 

RULE  117.  In  the  case  of  wooden  car  bodies 
the  depreciation  due  to  age  shall  be  figured  at 
6  per  cent  per  annum  upon  the  yearly  depre- 
ciated value  of  such  car  bodies. 

In  the  case  of  all-steel  car  bodies  the  depre- 
ciation shall  be  figured  at  5  per  cent  per  annum. 

In  the  case  of  car  bodies  with  steel  under- 
frames  the  depreciation  shall  be  figured  at  5^ 
per  cent  per  annum,  with  the  exception  of  steel 


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RULE  117  —  Continued. 

underframe    flat    cars    having    wooden    floors, 

which  shall  be  figured  at  5  per  cent  per  annum. 

The  depreciation  on  the  tanks  of  tank  cars 
for  handling  non-corrosive  substances  shall  be 
4  per  cent  per  annum ;  for  tanks  of  tank  cars 
handling  corrosive  substances  the  depreciation 
shall  be  5  per  cent  per  annum. 

The  depreciation  on  trucks  other  than  all- 
metal  shall  be  figured  at  6  per  cent  per  annum. 

The  depreciation  on  all-metal  trucks  shall  be 
figured  at  5  per  cent  per  annum. 

Allowances  for  depreciation  shall  in  no  case 
exceed  60  per  cent  of  the  value  new. 

The  amounts  $27.50  and  $35.00  for  air  brakes 
shall  not  be  subject  to  any  depreciation. 

RULE  118.  The  bodies  of  refrigerator  cars, 
stock  cars  permanently  fitted  for  stall  ship- 
ments and  other  freight  cars,  designed  for 
special  purposes,  not  referred  to  above,  shall 
be  settled  for  at  the  present  cost  price,  as  may 
be  agreed  to  by  the  parties  in  interest,  less 
the  deduction  for  depreciation  due  to  age, 
which  shall  be  on  the  same  basis  as  for  regular 
freight  equipment. 

In  the  case  of  cars  equipped  with  racks  for 
carrying  coke  and  for  other  such  purposes,  and 
also  stock  cars  other  than  those  permanently 
fitted  for  stall  shipments  with  feeding  and 
watering  attachments,  the  actual  cost  of  these 
equipments  shall  be  added  to  the  standard 
settlement  price,  for  such  cars. 

RULE  119.     The  company  on  whose  line  the 


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RULE  119  —  Continued. 

body  or  trucks  of  a  car  are  seriously  damaged, 
but  not  destroyed,  may  notify  the  owner  and 
ask  an  appraisement  on  the  damage  done  to 
the  car  as  a  basis  for  the  disposal  of  the  dam- 
aged car. 

SENDING  HOME  WORN-OUT  AND  DAMAGED  CARS. 

RULE  120.  A  car  unsafe  to  load  on  account 
of  general  worn-out  condition,  due  to  age  or 
decay,  shall  be  reported  to  its  owner,  who 
must  be  advised  of  all  existing  defects.  If  the 
owner  elects  to  have  it  sent  home,  he  shall 
furnish  two  home  cards,  noting  upon  them 
existing  defects  and  the  route  over  which  the 
car  is  to  be  returned  to  its  owner. 

Such  cards  shall  be  attached  to  each  side  of 
the  body  of  the  car,  and  of  the  form  shown  on 
page  87.  They  shall  be  printed  on  both  sides, 
and  shall  be  filled  in  on  both  sides  with  ink  or 
black  indelible  pencil. 

RULE  121.  A  car  which  is  safe  to  run,  but 
unsafe  to  load  on  account  of  serious  damage 
caused  by  wreck  or  accident,  shall  be  reported 
to  the  owners  for  appraisement  and  disposi- 
tion, and  disposed  of  as  provided  in  Rule  120, 
if  the  owner  so  elects. 

FURNISHING  MATERIALS. 

RULE  122.  Companies  shall  promptly  furnish 
to  each  other,  upon  requisition,  and  forward 
free  over  their  own  road,  material  for  repairs 
of  their  cars  damaged  upon  foreign  lines,  ex- 
cepting that  the  company  having  car  in  its 


76 

RULE  122  —  Continued. 

possession  at  the  time  shall  provide   from  its 

own  stock  the  following: 

Lumber,  forgings,  hardware  stock,  paint, 
hairfelt,  piping,  air-brake  material  and  all  M. 
C.  B.  Standard  material. 

Requisitions  for  such  material  shall  specify 
that  same  is  for  repairs  of  cars,  giving  car 
number  and  initial  of  such  car,  together  with 
pattern  number  or  other  data  to  enable  correct 
filling  of  requisition. 

SETTLEMENT  OF  DISPUTES. 

RULE  123.  In  order  to  settle  disputes  arising 
under  the  rules,  and  to  facilitate  the  revision 
of  the  rules  at  the  annual  conventions  of  the 
Association,  an  Arbitration  Committee  of  five 
representative  members  shall  be  appointed  an- 
nually by  the  Executive  Committee ;  three 
members  of  this  committee  to  constitute  a 
quorum. 

In  case  of  any  dispute  or  question  arising 
under  the  rules  between  the  subscribers  to  said 
rules/  the  same  .may  be  submitted  to  this  com- 
mittee, through  the  secretary,  in  abstract, 
jointly,  said  abstract  setting  forth  the  point  or 
points  at  issue,  and  each  party's  interpretation 
of  the  rules  upon  which  its  claim  is  based, 
clearly  and  concisely,  not  exceeding  three  type- 
written pages  of  letter  size,  single  space,  which 
shall  be  signed  by  both  parties  to  the  dispute. 
Should  one  of  the  parties  refuse  or  fail  to  fur- 
nish the  necessary  information,  the  committee 


.       77 

RULE  123  —  Continued. 

shall  use  its  judgment  as  to  whether,  with  the 
information  furnished,  it  can  properly  give  its 
opinion.  The  decisions  of  the  committee  shall 
be  final  and  binding  upon  the  parties  con- 
cerned. This  committee  shall  report  its  deci- 
sions to  the  Association,  and  its  report  shall 
be  incorporated  in  the  annual  report  of  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Association. 

REVISION  OF  THIS  CODE  OF  RULES. 

RULE  124.  The  Arbitration  Committee  shall 
ask  for  suggestions  of  changes,  amendments 
and  additions  to  these  rules  prior  to  each  an-* 
nual  convention,  which  it  shall  consider,  and 
it  shall  report  its  recommendations  to  the  suc- 
ceeding annual  convention. 

RULE  125.  In  the  revision  of  these  rules  by 
the  Association,  a  two-thirds  vote  shall  be  nec- 
essary for  adoption. 

RULE  126.  Voting  powers  shall  be  the  same 
as  prescribed  in  the  Constitution  of  the  Master 
Car  Builders'  Association  on  matters  pertain- 
ing to  the  adoption  of  standards  and  the  ex^ 
penditure  of  money. 

RULE  127.  This  Code  of  Rules  shall  be  in- 
troduced for  the  discussion  and  revision  at  one 
session  of  the  Master  Car  Builders'  Associa- 
tion convention  each  year. 

CONDITIONS  OF  ACCEPTANCE  OF  THIS  CODE. 

RULE  128.  Any  car  owner  or  railway  com- 
pany may  become  a  party  to  this  Code  of 


78 

RULE  128 — Continued. 

Rules  by  giving  notice  through  one  of  its  gen- 
eral officers  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Master  Car 
Builders'  Association. 

Railroad  companies  becoming  subscribers  to 
this  Code  of  Rules  must  have  a  representative 
member  in  the  Master  Car  Builders'  Associa- 
tion. 

RULE  129.  Any  car  owner  or  railway  com- 
pany that  is  a  party  to  this  Code  of  Rules  shall 
be  bound  by  same  through  its  successive  revi- 
sions, until  one  of  its  general  officers  files  with 
the  Secretary  of  the  Master  Car  Builders'  As- 
feociation  its  notification  of  withdrawal. 

RULE  130.  Acceptance  or  rejection  of  this 
Code  of  Rules  must  be  as  a  whole,  and  no 
exception  to  an  individual  rule  or  rules  shall 
be  valid. 

RULE  131.  This  Code  of  Rules  shall  take 
effect  September  I,  1911. 


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88 

AMERICAN  RAILWAY  ASSOCIATION. 
Car  Service  Rule  15. 

Unless  otherwise  agreed,  the  cost  of  trans- 
ferring the  lading  of  freight  cars  or  rearrange- 
ment of  lading  at  junction  points  shall  be 
settled  as  follows : 

First.  The  delivering  road  shall  pay  cost 
of  transfer  or  rearrangement : 

(a)  When    transfer    is    due    to    defective 
equipment  that  is  not  safe  to   run,   according 
to  M.  C  B.  Rules. 

(b)  When    transfer    or    rearrangement    of 
load    is    due    to    contents    being    improperly 
loaded  or  overloaded,  according  to  M.   C.   B. 
Rules,   or   the   Interstate    Commerce   Commis- 
sion   Regulations    for    the    transportation    of 
explosives,  or  the  American  Railway  Associa- 
tion Regulations  for  the  transportation  of  in- 
flammable articles      id  acids. 

(c)  When    transfer    is    due    to    delivering 
line  not  desiring  the  equipment  to  go  beyond 
junction  points. 

Second.  The  receiving  road  shall  pay  cost 
of  transfer  or  rearrangement: 

(d)  When  cars   exceed  load  limit   or   can 
not  pass  clearances  or  be  moved  through  on 
account   of   any   other   disability   of    receiving 
line. 

(e)  When  receiving  road  desires  transfer 
to  save  cost  of  mileage  or  per  diem. 

NOTE. —  The  word  "  cars  "  covers  both  closed  and 
open  cars  and  lading.  The  words  "  load  limit  "  refer 
to  the  limits  placed  on  bridges,  tracks,  etc.,  and  not 
to  car  capacity. 


89 


LIST  OF  CAR  OWNERS  AND    RAILWAY 
COMPANIES 

WHICH  HAVE  ADOPTED  THE  CODE  OF  RUEES 
GOVERNING  THE  CONDITION  OF,  AND  REPAIRS 
TO,  FREIGHT  CARS  FOR  THE  INTERCHANGE  OF 
TRAFFIC. 

The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  car  own- 
ers  and  railway  companies  which  have  given 
notice  of  the  adoption  of  the  above  Code  of 
Rules. 

Other  companies  which  adopt  this  Code  of 
Rules  should  notify  the  secretary,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  Rules,  so  that  the  names  of  such 
companies  may  be  included  in  the  list  there- 
after. Notice  should  be  given  of  all  changes  in 
the  names  of  companies  in  this  list: 

Alabama  Great  Southern. 
Alabama  &  Mississippi. 
Alabama  &  Vicksburg. 
Alameda  &  San  Joaquin. 
Albany  &  Hudson. 
Algoma  Central. 
Aliquippa  &  Southern. 
Allegheny  Valley. 
American  Cotton  Oil  Co. 
American  Creosoting  Co. 
American  Fast  Freight  Line. 
American  Refrigerator  Transit  Co. 
American  Tank  Line. 
Anglo-American  Tar  Products  Co. 
Ann  Arbor. 
Arkansas  Central. 
Arkansas,  Louisiana  &  Gulf. 
Arkansas,  Louisiana  &  Southern. 
Arizona  Eastern. 
Armour  Car  Lines. 
Armour  Packing  Co. 


90 

Arms  Palace  Horse  Car  Co. 

Astoria  &  Columbia  River. 

Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe. 

Atlanta,  Knoxville  &  Northern. 

Atlanta  Stone,  Coal  &  Lumber  Line. 

Atlanta,  Birmingham  &  Atlantic. 

Atlantic  &  Pacific. 

Atlanta  &  Birmingham  Air  Line. 

Atlanta  &  West  Point. 

Atlantic  Coast  Line. 

Atlantic  Seaboard  Line. 

Atlantic,  Valdosta  &  Western. 

Baltimore  &  Ohio. 

Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern. 

Baltimore  &  Potomac. 

Baltimore  &  Sparrows  Point. 

Bangor  &  Aroostook. 

Barberton  Belt. 

Barrett  Mfg.  Co. 

Bay  Terminal. 

Beech  Creek. 

Bellefonte  Central. 

Bellingham  Bay  &  British  Columbia. 

Bennington  &  Rutland. 

Bessemer  &  Lake  Erie. 

Bessemer  Coke  Co. 

Birmingham  Southern. 

Booth's  Refrigerator  Line. 

Booth's  Cold  Storage  System. 

Boston  &  Albany. 

Boston  &  Lowell. 

Boston  &  Maine. 

Boston,  Hoosac  Tunnel  &  Western. 

Brimstone  Railroad  &  Canal  Co. 

Bristol,  Elizabethton  &  North  Carolina. 

Buffalo,  Rochester  &  Pittsburg. 

Buffalo  &  Susquehanna. 

Bullfrog  Goldfield. 

Burlington,  Cedar  Rapids  &  Northern. 

Burlington  &  Missouri  River  in  Nebraska. 

Butte,  Anaconda  &  Pacific. 

Cairo,  Vincennes  &  Chicago. 


91 

California  Fruit  Transportation  Co. 

Cammal  &  Black  Forest. 

Canada  Southern. 

Canadian  Northern. 

Canadian  Pacific. 

Canadian  Northern  Quebec. 

Cananea  Consolidated  Copper  Co. 

Cananea,  Yaqui  River  &  Pacific. 

Canda  Cattle  Car  Co. 

Cape  Girardeau  South-Western. 

Carolina  &  North- Western. 

Carolina,  Clinchfield  &  Ohio. 

Central  Indiana. 

Central  New  England. 

Central  of  Georgia. 

Central  Railroad  of  New  Jersey. 

Central  Vermont. 

Champaign  &  Havanna. 

Chattanooga,  Rome  &  Columbus. 

Chattanooga  Southern. 

Chesapeake,  Ohio  &  South-Western. 

Chesapeake  &  Ohio. 

Chesapeake  &  Western. 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Kansas  City. 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Northern. 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy. 

Chicago,  Cincinnati  &  Louisville. 

Chicago,  Indiana  &  Southern. 

Chicago,  Fort  Madison  &  Des  Moines. 

Chicago  Great  Western. 

Chicago,  Indianapolis  &  Louisville. 

Chicago  Junction. 

Chicago,  Kalamazoo  &  Saginaw. 

Chicago,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern. 

Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  Gary. 

Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  Puget  Sound. 

Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul. 

Chicago,  New  York  &  Boston  Refrigerator  Co, 

Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis. 

Chicago  Refrigerator  Car  Co. 

Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific. 

Chicago,  St.  Louis  &  Pittsburgh. 


92 

Chicago,  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Omaha. 

Chicago  Terminal  Transfer. 

Chicago  Union  Transfer. 

Chicago,  West  Pullman  &  Southern. 

Chicago  &  Alton. 

Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois. 

Chicago  &  Erie. 

Chicago  &  Iowa. 

Chicago  &  Milwaukee  Electric. 

Chicago  &  North  Western. 

Chicago  &  South  Bend. 

Chicago  &  Western  Indiana  and  Belt  Railway. 

Chihuahua  &  Pacific. 

Choctaw,  Oklahoma  &  Gulf. 

Cincinnati,  Hamilton  &  Dayton. 

Cincinnati,  Selma  &  Mobile. 

Cincinnati  Northern. 

Cincinnati  Southern. 

Cincinnati,  New  Orleans  &  Texas  Pacific. 

Cleveland,  Akron  &  Columbus. 

Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis. 

Cleveland  &  Marietta. 

Cleveland,  Canton  &  Southern. 

Cleveland,  Lorain  &  Wheeling. 

Cleveland  Provision  Co. 

Cleveland  Terminal  &  Valley. 

Clove  Branch. 

Coal  &  Coke. 

Cold  Blast  Refrigerator  Transit  Co. 

Cold  Blast  Transportation  Co. 

Colorado  &  Southern. 

Colorado  &  South-Eastern. 

Colorado  &  Wyoming. 

Colorado  Midland. 

Colorado  Springs  .&  Cripple  Creek  District. 

Columbia  &  Puget  Sound. 

Connecticut  River. 

Consolidated  Cattle  Car  Co. 

Consolidated  Rolling  Stock  Co. 

Continental  Fruit  Express. 

Cornwall. 

Cornwall  &  Lebanon. 


93 

Corsicana  Cotton  Oil  Co. 

Corvallis  &  Eastern. 

Craig  Oil  Co. 

Crystal  Car  Line. 

Cudahy  Refrigerator  Line. 

Cumberland  Valley. 

Cumberland  &  Pennsylvania. 

Dairy  Shippers'  Despatch. 

Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western. 

Delaware  River  &  Union. 

Delaware,  Susquehanna  &  Schuylkill. 

Delaware  &  Hudson  Co. 

Delray  Connecting. 

Denver  &  Rio  Grande. 

Denver,  Laramie  &  Northwestern. 

Detroit,  Toledo  &  Milwaukee. 

Detroit  &  Lima  Northern. 

Detroit  &  Mackinac. 

Des  Moines  &  Fort  Dodge. 

Des  Moines  &  Northern. 

Dolese  &  Shepard. 

Dominion  Atlantic. 

Doniphan,  Kensett  &  Searcy. 

Doud  Stock  Car  Co. 

Dry  Fork. 

Duluth  &  Iron  Range. 

Duluth,  Missabe  &  Northern. 

Duluth,  South  Shore  &  Atlantic. 

Eagle  Oil  Co. 

Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern. 

Elizabeth  River. 

Elmira,  Cortland  &  Northern. 

El  Paso  &  Southwestern. 

Empire  Oil  Works. 

Erie. 

Erie  &  Michigan  Ry.  &  Nav.  Co. 

Erie  &  Wyoming  Valley. 

Esquimalt  &  Nanaimo. 

Evansville  &  Terre  Haute. 

Express  Coal  Line, 

Fairbank  Co.,  The  N.  K. 

Fall  Brook. 


94 

Federal  Creosoting  Co. 

Findlay,  Fort  Wayne  &  Western. 

Fitchburg. 

Florence  &  Cripple  Creek. 

Florida  Central. 

Florida  East  Coast. 

Fort  Smith,  Subiaco  &  Eastern. 

Fort  Smith  &  Western. 

Fort  Worth  Belt. 

Fort  Worth  &  Denver  City. 

Freedom  Oil  Works. 

Galveston,  Harrisburg  &  San  Antonio. 

Geneva,  Ithaca  &  Sayre. 

George's  Creek  &  Cumberland. 

Georgia. 

Georgia,  Florida  &  Alabama. 

Georgia  Southern  &  Florida. 

German-American  Car  Co. 

German-American  Refrigerator  Express. 

German-American  Tank  Line. 

Glade  Oil  Works. 

Globe  Soap  Co. 

Golden  Circle. 

Goodwin  Car  Co. 

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana. 

Grand  Trunk. 

Grand  Trunk  Pacific. 

Great  Northern  Railway  Line. 

Great  Western  Oil  Refg.  Co. 

Green  Bay  &  Western. 

Groveton,  Lufkin  &  Northern. 

Gulf,  Colorado  &  Santa  Fe. 

Gulf  Refining  Co. 

Gulf,  Western  Texas  &  Pacific. 

Guyton,  W.  A.  &  Co. 

Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph. 

Hartford  &  Connecticut  Western. 

Hecla  Belt  Line. 

Heinz,  H.  J.,  &  Co. 

Higgins  Oil  &  Fuel  Co. 

Higley  Co.  Refrigerator  Line. 

Hocking  Valley. 


95 

Housatonic. 

Houston  East  &  West  Texas. 

Houston  &  Texas  Central. 

Huntington  &  Broad  Top  Mountain. 

Hutchinson  &  Southern. 

Illinois  Central. 

Illinois  Northern. 

Illinois  Southern. 

Illinois  Terminal. 

Illinois  Traction  System. 

Imperial  Oil  Co.  Ltd. 

Indiana,  Bloomington  &  Western. 

Indianapolis,  Decatur  &  Western. 

Indiana  Pipe  Line  &  Refining  Co. 

Intercolonial  of  Canada. 

International  &  Great  Northern. 

Interstate. 

Iowa  Central. 

Iron  Car  Express  Coal  Line. 

Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis. 

Jacob  Dold  Packing  Co. 

Jamison  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Kalamazoo,  Lake  Shore  &  Chicago. 

Kanawha  &  Michigan. 

Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis. 

Kansas  City,  St.  Joseph  &  Council  Bluffs. 

Kansas  City,  Memphis  &  Birmingham. 

Kansas  City,  Mexico  &  Orient. 

Kansas  City  Southern. 

Kansas  City  Terminal. 

Kentucky  Refining  Co. 

Keokuk  &  Western. 

Keystone  Palace  Horse  Car  Co. 

Kilpatrick  Bros.  &  Collins  Contracting  Co. 

Knapp,  I.  N. 

Lackawanna  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Lackawanna  Iron  &  Steel  Co. 

Lackawanna  Steel  Co. 

Lake  Carrier's  Oil  Co. 

Lake  Champlain  &  Moriah. 

Lake  Erie  &  Detroit  River. 

Lake  Erie  &  Western. 


96 

Lake  Shore^  Michigan  Southern. 

Lake  Superior  &  Ishpeming. 

Lake  Terminal. 

Las  Vegas  &  Tonopah. 

Leavenworth,  Kansas  &  Western. 

Leetonia. 

Lehigh  &  Hudson  River. 

Lehigh  &  New  England. 

Lehigh  Valley. 

Lexington  &  Eastern. 

Lipe,  F.  W. 

Litchfield  &  Madison. 

Litchfield,  Carrollton  &  Western. 

Live  Poultry  Transportation  Co. 

Long  Island. 

Louisiana  &  Arkansas. 

Louisiana  &  Northwest. 

Louisiana  &  Pacific. 

Louisiana  Railway  &  Navigation  Co. 

Louisiana  Western. 

Louisville  Cotton  Oil  Co. 

Louisville  &  Nashville. 

Louisville,  New  Orleans  &  Texas. 

Louisville  Soap  Co. 

Louisville,  St.  Louis  &  Texas. 

Louisville  &  St.  Lo^is. 

Lutz  &  Schramm  Co. 

McCloud  River. 

Macon  &  Birmingham. 

Madison,  Alton  &  Chicago. 

Mahoning  Valley. 

Maine  Central. 

Manhattan  Oil  Co. 

Manistee  &  Grand  Rapids. 

Manistee  &  North-Eastern. 

Manitoba  &  North-Western  Ry.  of  Canada. 

Manufacturers'  Junction. 

Marietta,  Columbus  &  Cleveland. 

Marquette  &  Southeastern. 

Maryland  &  Pennsylvania. 

Martin,  John  C 

Marshalltown  &  Dakota. 


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Mason  City  &  Fort  Dodge. 

Mather  Stock  Car  Co. 

Mercer  Valley. 

Merchants  Despatch  Transportation  Co. 

Mexican  Central. 

Mexican  International. 

Mexican  Northern. 

Michigan  Ammonia  Works. 

Michigan  Central. 

Midland  Valley. 

Midland  Valley  Tank  Line. 

Midland  Terminal. 

Miller's  Sons'  Co.,  A.  D. 

Milwaukee,  Lake  Shore  &  Western. 

Mineral  Point  Zinc  Co. 

Minneapolis,  St.  Paul  &  Sault  Ste.  Marie. 

Minneapolis  &  St.  Louis. 

Minnesota  &  International. 

Mississippi  Central. 

Mississippi  River  &  Bonne  Terre. 

Mississippi  River,  Hamburg  &  Western. 

Missouri  Pacific. 

Missouri  &  North  Arkansas. 

Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas. 

Mobile  &  Birmingham. 

Mobile  &  Ohio. 

Mobile,  Jackson  &  Kansas  City. 

Monongahela  Connecting. 

Monongahela  River  Consol.  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Montana  Union. 

Montpelier  &  Welis  River. 

Monte  Cristo. 

Montour. 

Montpelier  &  Wells  River. 

Mooney  Car  Line  Co. 

Morgan's     Louisiana    &    Texas     Railroad    < 

Steamship  Co. 
Morganstown  &  Kingwood. 
Morrisey,  Fernie  &  Michel. 
Morton-Gregson  Car  Lines. 
Munising. 
Nacozari. 


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Nashville,  Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis. 
National  Ammonia  Co. 
National  Car  Co. 
National  Car  Line. 
National  Rolling  Stock  Co. 
Nelson  Morris  &  Co. 
Nevada  Copper  Belt. 
Nevada  Northern. 
Newburgh  &  South  Shore. 
Newburgh,  Dutchess  &  Connecticut. 
New  Orleans  Great  Northern. 
New  Orleans  &  North-Eastern. 
Newport  News  &  Mississippi  Valley. 
New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River. 
New  York  &  Northern. 
New  York  &  Ottawa. 
New  York,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis. 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford. 
New  York,  Ontario  &  Western. 
New  York,  Pennsylvania  &  Ohio. 
New  York,  Philadelphia  &  Norfolk. 
New  York,  Providence  &  Boston. 
New  York  &  New  England. 
New  York,  Susquehanna  &  Western. 
New  York,  Texas  &  Mexican. 
Norfolk  Southern. 
Norfolk  &  Carolina. 
Norfolk  &  Portsmouth  Belt  Line. 
Norfolk  &  Western. 
Northern  Central. 
Northern  Pacific. 
Old  Colony. 

Old  Dominion  Copper  Mining  &  Smelting  Co. 
Ohio  Southern. 
'  Ohio  &  Mississippi. 
Ogdensburg  &  Lake  Champlain. 
Omaha  &  St.  Louis. 
Oregon  Electric. 

Oregon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Co. 
Oregon  Short  Line. 
Overland  Refrigerator  Express. 
Owasco  River. 


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Pacific  Electric. 

Pacific  Fruit  Express  Co 

Paragon  Refining  Co. 

Parral  &  Durango. 

Penn  Gas  Coal  Co. 

Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Pennsylvania  Co. 

Pennsylvania  Paraffine  Works. 

Pennsylvania  Railroad. 

Pennsylvania,  Poughkeepsie  &  Boston. 

Pennsylvania  &  North-Western. 

Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville. 

Pere  Marquette. 

Petersburg. 

Philadelphia  &  Reading. 

Philadelphia,  Baltimore  &  Washington. 

Pierce  Fordyce  Oil  Assn. 

Pittsburgh,  Akron  &  Western. 

Pittsburgh,  Allegheny  &  McKees  Rocks. 

Pittsburgh,  Chartiers  &  Youghiogheny. 

Pittsburgh,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis. 

Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

Pittsburg,  Shawmut  &  Northern. 

Pittsburg  Provision  &  Packing  Co. 

Pittsburgh  &  Buffalo  Co. 

Pittsburgh  &  Eastern. 

Pittsburgh  &  Lake  Erie. 

Pittsburgh  &  Ohio  Valley. 

Pittsburgh  &  Western. 

Plant  System. 

Pontiac,  Oxford  &  Northern. 

Portland  &  Rumford  Falls. 

Prescott  &  Eastern. 

Produce  Shippers'  Despatch. 

Producers'  Pipe  Line  Co. 

Providence  &  Worcester. 

Provision  Dealers'  Despatch. 

Quebec  &  Lake  St.  John. 

Suebec,  Montreal  &  Southern, 
uincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City. 
Raleigh  &  Gaston. 
Rio  Grande,  Sierra  Madre  &  Pacific. 


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Richmond,  Fredericksburg  &  Potomac. 

Rio  Grande  Western. 

Rock  Island  &  Peoria. 

Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg. 

Rutland. 

Saginaw  Valley  &  St.  Louis. 

Saint  Clair  Terminal. 

San  Antonio  &  Aransas  Pass. 

San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake. 

Santa  Fe  Central. 

Santa  Fe  Pacific. 

Santa  Fe,  Prescott  &  Phoenix. 

Santa  Fe  Refrigerator  Despatch. 

Scioto  Valley. 

Seaboard  Air  Line. 

Seattle  &  International. 

Shenandoah  Valley. 

Sherman,  Shreveport  &  Southern. 

Shippers'  Refrigerator  Car  Co. 

Shreveport  Creosoting  Co. 

Sierra  Ry.  Co.  of  California. 

Sinclair  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  T.  M. 

Sonora. 

South  Buffalo. 

South  Carolina. 

South-Eastern  Line. 

South  Florida. 

Southwestern  of  Arizona. 

Southern. 

Southern  Central. 

Southern  Freight  Line. 

Southern  Indiana. 

Southern  Iron  Car  Line. 

Southern  Oil  Co. 

Southern  Pacific  (Pacific  System). 

Southern  Pacific  R.  R.  Co.  of  Mexico. 

Spokane  &  Inland  Empire. 

Spokane  Falls  &  Northern. 

Spokane  International. 

Spokane,  Portland  &  Seattle. 

St.  Joseph,  South  Bend  &  Southern. 

St.  Joseph  &  Grand  Island. 


St.  Louis,  .Brown§viUe,&  Mpxlrc.. 

St.  Louis  Car  Co.  Lire 

St.  Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul. 

St.  Louis  Dressed  Beef  &  Provision  Co. 

St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  &  Colorado. 

St.  Louis,  Keokuk  &  North-Western. 

St.  Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern. 

St.  Louis  Refrigerator  Car  Co. 

St.  Louis,  Rocky  Mountain  &  Pacific. 

St.  Louis  South-Western. 

St.  Louis  South-Western  Railway  of  Texas. 

St.  Louis  Transfer. 

St.  Louis,  Troy  &  Eastern. 

St.  Louis,  Watkins  &  Gulf. 

St.  Louis  &  Hannibal. 

St.  Louis  &  O'Fallon. 

St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco. 

St.  Paul  &  Duluth. 

Staten  Island  Rapid  Transit. 

Stephenville  North  &  South  Texas. 

Street's  Western  Stable  Car  Line. 

Susquehanna  &  New  York. 

Swift  &  Co. 

Swift  Refrigerator  Transportation  Co. 

Swift-  Live  Stock  Express  Line. 

Sydney  &  Louisburg. 

Tacoma  Eastern. 

Tehuantepec  National. 

Temiskaming  &  Northern  Ontario. 

Tennessee  Central. 

Tennessee  Copper  Co. 

Texas  &  New  Orleans. 

Texas  Brewing  Co. 

Texas  Central. 

Texas  Company. 

Texas  Pacific. 

Tionesta  Valley. 

Toledo,  Cincinnati  &  St.  Louis. 

Toledo,  Columbus  &  Cincinnati. 

Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western. 

Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western. 

Toledo  Terminal. 


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Toledo  &  Ohio  Central 

Toledo  &  Ohio  (Central  Extension.  ' 

Toledo  &  Western. 

Tonopah  &  Goldfield. 

Tonopah  &  Tidewater. 

Toronto,  Gray  &  Bruce. 

Toronto,  Hamilton  &  Buffalo. 

Tremont  &  Gulf. 

Trinity  &  Brazos  Valley. 

Troy  &  Boston. 

Tyler  South-Eastern. 

Union. 

Union  Pacific. 

Union  Refrigerator  Transit  Co. 

Union  Sand  &  Material  Co. 

Union  Stock  Yards  &  Transit  Co.  of  Chicago. 

Union  Stock  Yards  Co.  of  Omaha. 

Union  Tank  Line. 

United  Coal  Co. 

Vandalia. 

Vera  Cruz  &  Pacific. 

Vicksburg,  Shreveport  &  Pacific. 

Vinton  Colliery  Co. 

Virginia. 

Virginia  &  Southwestern. 

Wabash  Railway. 

Walwprth  &  Neville  Mfg.  Co. 

Washington  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Washington  Southern. 

Waters  Pierce  Oil  Co. 

Wheeling  &  Lake  Erie. 

Western  Car  Co. 

Western  Live  Stock  Express. 

Western  Maryland. 

Western  Railway  of  Alabama. 

Western  New  York  &  Pennsylvania. 

Western  Rolling  Stock  &  Equipment  Co. 

West  Jersey  &  Sea  Shore. 

Westmoreland  Coal  Co. 

West  Shore.      * 

West  Side  Belt. 

West  Virginia  Central  &  Pitisburg. 


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Williamsville,  Greenville  &  St.  Louis. 
Wisconsin  Central. 
Wisconsin  &  Northern. 
Yellowstone  Park. 
Zanesville  &  Ohio  River. 
Zanesville  &  Western. 


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APPENDIX. 


CODE)     OK     RULES 

Governing  the   Condition   of,   and    Repairs 

to,    Passenger   Equipment  Cars 

in    Interchange. 


PREFACE. 

These  rules  make  car  owners  responsible 
for,  and  therefore  chargeable  with,  the  re- 
pairs to  their  cats  necessitated  by  ordinary 
wear  and  tear  in  fair  service,  so  that  defect 
cards  will  not  be  required  for  any  defects 
thus  arising. 

Railroad  companies  handling  cars  are  re- 
sponsible for  damage  done  to  any  car  by 
unfair  usage,  derailment  or  accident,  and 
for  improper  repairs  made  by  them,  and 
they  should  make  proper  repairs  at  their 
own  expense,  or  issue  defect  card  covering 
all  such  damage  or  improper  repairs. 

All  inspection  of  passenger  cars  for  inter- 
change will  be  made  in  accordance  with  the 
following  rules: 


I.     Each  Railway  Company  shall  give  to  for- 
eign cars,  while  on  its  line,  THE  SAME  CARE  AS 

TO     OILING,     PACKING,    INSPECTION     AND     ADJUST- 
ING BRAKES   THAT  IT  GIVES  ITS  OWN   CARS,  CXCCpt 

in  case  of  cars  on  which  work  is  done  under 


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special  agreement  existing  between  the  com- 
pany owning  the  cars  and  the  road  operating 
the  same. 

2.  The  expenses  of  maintenance  of  passen- 
ger equipment  operated  in  interchange  or  line 
service    shall    be    divided    into    three    classes, 
namely : 

(a)  Owner's  defects. 

(b)  Delivering  Company's  defects. 

(c)  Line    expenses    proratable    against    the 
roads  comprising  the  lines  on  a  mileage  basis. 

3.  (a)  Owner's  defects  are  those  due  to  or- 
dinary wear  and  tear. 

(b)  Delivering  company's  defects  are  those 
due   to    unfair   usage,    derailment   or   accident. 
Delivering  company  is  solely  responsible  to  car 
owners  for  any  improper  repairs  made  by  them. 

(c)  Line    expenses    shall    consist    of    the 
expense  of  terminal  cleaning,  icing,  lubrication 
(oil,  waste,  tallow  and  labor)  : 

Oil  lighting  (oil,  chimneys,  wicks,  burners, 
shades). 

Gas  lighting  (gas,  mantles,  tips,  domes, 
globes,  bulbs,  bowls). 

Electric  lighting  (fuses,  incandescent  bulbs, 
charging  currents). 

Heating  (terminal  heating  and  coal  fur- 
nished for  individual  car  heaters  en  route). 

Candles  and  broken  glass. 

4.  The  railway  making  the  repairs  for  the 
defects  not  proratable  against  the  line  is  priv- 
ileged to  bill  the  car  owner  for  these  repairs, 
unless   there   is   evidence   to   indicate   that   the 


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damage  was  occasioned  by  unfair  handling  on 
the  part  of  the  delivering  company. 

5.  Information  as  to  mileage  made  by  cars 
must    be    furnished    promptly    on    request    of 
owners  by  railways  over  which  cars  are  run. 

6.  Only    one    journal    bearing    per    journal 
may  be  charged  per  trip. 

7.  No  labor  charge  shall  be  made  for  ap- 
plying brake  shoes,  incandescent  bulbs,  journal 
bearings,  hose  (air,  steam  or  signal),  mantles, 
tips,  or  for  icing,  filling  lamps,  charging  bat- 
teries, gasing  tanks  or  coaling  cars. 

8.  No  credit  to  be  allowed  for  burned-out 
incandescent  bulbs,  burned-out  fuses  or  scrap 
brake  shoes  removed. 

NOTE. —  Steel  back  brake  shoes  not  to  be 
removed  if  over  one-half  (l/2)  inch  thick; 
gray  iron  shoes  hot  to  be  removed  if  over 
three-quarters  (^J)  inch  thick. 

9.  Loss  of  metal   from  tires  of  steel-tired 
wheels,    caused   by   flat    sliding,    is    chargeable 
to   the   company  on  whose   road   the   damage 
occurs. 

NOTE. —  Loss  of  service  metal  from  steel- 
tired  wheels  as  a  result  of  sliding  to  be  meas- 
ured from  point  where  slide  begins.  One- 
sixteenth  (1-16)  inch  of  metal  to  be  allowed 
for  flat  spots  under  two  and  one-half  (2^) 
inches  long  and  one-eighth  (^)  inch  of  metal 
to  be  allowed  for  flat  spots  two  and  one-half 
(2l/2)  to  three  and  one-half  (3^2)  inches  in 
length,  both  inclusive. 


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10.  (a)    Axles  broken  under  fair  usage  or 
having  journals   one-half    (^2)    inch   or  more 
under  the  standard  for  car    (except  for  three 
and  three-quarters  by  seven  (3^  by  7)   which 
will  be  condemned  at  three  and  one-half  (3^) 
inches  may  be  renewed  at  the  expense  of  the 
car  owner.    Size  of  journal  should  be  stenciled 
on  truck. 

(b)  Cut  journals,  axles  bent  or  broken  or 
rendered  unsafe  by  unfair  usage,  derailment  or 
accident,   shall  be  renewed  at  the  expense  of 
the  railway  on  whose  line  the  damage  occurs. 

(c)  Where   necessary  to  true  up   axles   in 
cases    of   cut   journals,    where   the   journal    is 
reduced  below  the  limit  as  prescribed  in  Rule 
lo-a,  axle  must  be  changed  at  the  expense  of 
company  cutting  journal. 

11.  (a)   Charge  for  terminal  car  heating  to 
be  25  cents  per  day  of  24  hours  or  less. 

11.  (b)  Cars  lying  at  stations  for  over  forty- 
eight  hours,  expense  of  heating  to  be  borne  by 
railway  in  whose  possession  cars  may  be. 

12.  (a)  Brakes  must  be  in  perfect  working 
order.     Cylinders,  triple  valves  and   slack  ad- 
justers   must    have    been    cleaned    and    oiled 
within   six    (6)    months,   and   in   case   of   cars 
equipped    with    high-speed    brakes,    triple    and 
high-speed  valves  must  be  cleaned  every  three 
(3)  months  and  date  of  last  cleaning  and  oil- 
ing   stenciled    on    brake    cylinder    and    triple 
valve  with  white  paint. 

(b)       The  adjustment  of  piston  travel  based 
on  not  less  than  seventy   (70)   pounds  initial 


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pressure  must  not  be  less  than  five   (5)   inches 
nor  more  than  eight  (8)  inches. 

On  electrically  lighted  cars  furnished  to  for- 
eign roads,  where  no  agreement  is  made,  the 
following  charge  shall  be  made  per  day  for 
use  of  batteries : 

Depreciation.     Current.     Total. 
Cents.  Cents.       Cents. 

32  cells    46  29  75 

16  cells    23  14  37 


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DEFECTS   IN   WHEELS  —  OWNERS   RESPONSIBLE. 

13.     (a)   Loose  wheels. 

(b)  Variation  from  gauge  (see  Fig.  8  for 
wheels  cast  prior  to  M.  C.  B.  standard  tread 
and  flange  adopted  in  1907,  and  Fig.  9  for 
wheels  cast  after  January  i,  1908). 


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WHEELS  —  CAST-IRON. 

14.  (a)    Shelled  out;    wheels  with  defect- 
ive treads  on  account  of  pieces  shelling  out; 
if    the    spots    are    over    one    (i)    inch    or    so 
numerous    as    to    endanger   the    safety    of   the 
wheel. 

(b)  Tread  worn  hollow;    if  tread  is  worn 
hollow  y%  inch  or  over. 

(c)  Worn  flanges ;    flanges  having  flat  ver- 
tical surfaces  extending  y%  inch  or  more  from 
tread,  or,  flanges  I  inch  thick  or  less,  gauged 
at  a  point  y%  inch  above  tread. 

(d)  Gauge:     for  condemning  worn  flanges 
of  cast-iron  wheels  under  passenger  cars  to  be 
the    same    as    is    used    for    condemning   worn 
flanges  of  cast-iron  wheels  under  freight  cars 
of  80,000  pounds  capacity  or  over. 

(e)  Burst;    if  wheel  is  cracked  from  wheel 
fit  outward  by  pressure  from  axle. 

(f)  Flange,  rim,  tread,  plate  brackets  or  any 
other  part  of  wheel,  either  cracked,  chipped  or 
broken  under  fair  usage. 

WHEELS  —  STEEL-TIRED. 

15.  (a)    Loose,    broken    or    cracked    hubs, 
plates,  bolts,  retaining  ring  or  tire,  occurring 
under  fair  usage. 

(b)  Worn  flange  or  tire;  with  flange 
15-16  inch  thick  or  less  or  having  flat  vertical 
spot  extending  I  inch  or  more  from  tread, 
or  with  tire  thinner  than  shown  in  Figs,  i,  2, 
3  and  4. 


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(c)  Gauge  for  condemning  worn  flanges  of 
steel  and  steel-tired  wheels  under  passenger 
cars  to  be  the  same  as  is  used  for  condemning 
worn  flanges  of  steel  and  steel-tired  wheels 
under  freight  cars. 


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DELIVERING  COMPANY  RESPONSIBLE. 

16.  Flat  spots;   if  flat  spots,  caused  by  slid- 
ing, exceed  one  inch  in  length. 

17.  (a)  If  a  car  not  in  line  service  is  trans- 
ferred   from    one    railroad    to    another,    the 
receiving     road     shall     issue     gas     certificate 
authorizing  the  delivering  road  to  bill  against 
it  for  the  number  of  atmospheres  of  gas  and 
number   of  holders   at   the   time   car   was    re- 
ceived. 

(Name  of  Road.) 
GAS  CERTIFICATE. 

Car  Number   Initial   

Number   of   Atmospheres    . , 

Number  of  Holders ; 

Size  of  Holders 

Station,    4 1 900 

Inspector. 

(b)  Cars  not  in  line  service  in  interchange 
requiring   holders    to    be    filled,    the    receiving 
road  shall  be  charged  for  the  quantity  of  gas 
supplied. 

(c)  For  cars  stored  in  shops  for  repairs  the 
company  having  car  in  its  possession  shall  be 
responsible  to  the  delivering  company  for  the 
gas  in  holders.     This  will  apply  to  skeping- 
car  companies  when  cars  are  in  their  posses- ' 
sion  and  out  of  service. 

(d)  Private  or  other  cars,  except'  regular 
line  cars,  when  offered  in  interchange  equipped 
with  steam  hose  couplings  th?.t  will  not  couple 


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with  the  standard  on  the  receiving  line  must  be 
changed  by  receiving  company ;  the  hose  re- 
moved to  accompany  car  and  be  reapplied 
when  car  leaves  the  line. 

18.  The  depreciation  of  all  passenger  equip- 
ment cars  due  to  age  shall  be  figured  at  3  per 
cent  per   annum  upon   the  yearly  depreciated 
value  of  same,  to  continue  not  to  exceed  50  per 
cent  of  its  original  value.     The  above  method 
of  depreciation  applies  equally  to  either  bodies 
or  trucks  of  such  cars.     No  depreciation  shall 
be  allowed  on  the  value  of  air  brakes. 

19.  This   code   of   rules   is   to  apply  to  all 
equipment  interchanged  in  passenger  trains. 

20.  Bills  for  line  charges  shall  be  made  and 
rendered  monthly  and  prices  for  materials  and 
labor  shall  be  in  accordance  with  accompany- 
ing schedule. 

21.  Air-brake  hose   applied   must   be   made 
in  accordance  with  specifications  for  M.  C.  B. 
standard  i^-inch  hose,  and  so  labeled. 

22.  This   Code  of   Rules   shall   take   effect 
September  I,  1911. 


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LIST  OF  PRICES  FOR  MAINTENANCE  OF  PAS- 
SENGER  EQUIPMENT  IN  INTERCHANGE. 


MATERIAL. 

NEW. 

SECOND- 
HAND, 

SCRAP. 

Axle  40  000  Ibs 

$11  50 

$  6  25 

$4  25 

Axle,  60,000  Ibs  

14.00 

7.75 

5.25 

Axle  80  000  Ibs 

17  75 

10  00 

6  50 

MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Air-brake  hose,  M.  C.  B.  Standard,  If, 
complete  with  fittings,  applied  to  car.. 
Air  brake  or  signal  hose,  credit  for  fittings 

$2.00 

"$6  80 

Air-signal  hose,  1",  complete  with  fittings, 
applied  to  car  

1.75 

Backs  of  seats,  and  cushions  of  passenger 
cars,  either  vestibule  or  common,  remov- 
in^  and  beating  per  car 

65 

BelV  or  signal  cord  and  couplings,  per  car 

.75 

Bolts,  nuts  and  forgings,  per  Ib  

.03 

.OOf 

Bowls,  gas            

At  cost. 

Brake  shoes,  Diamond  S,  applied,  each,  no 
credit  for  scrap 

50 

Bulbs  gas 

At  cost. 

Burners,  dual  wicks,  each  

.30 

Burners,  round  wick  each 

50 

Candles  per  Ib 

15 

Carpets,  seats,  draperies,  etc.,  parlor  and 
sleeping  cars,  removing  and  beating,  per 
car 

1  00 

Chain,  per  Ib  

.05 

.01 

Chimneys,  dual  wick,  each.                   .... 

06 

Chimneys  round  wick  each 

11 

Cleaning  baggage  cars,  each 

.50 

Cleaning  common  passenger  and  combina- 
tion cars,  each           ....                .... 

.70 

Cleaning  mail  cars  each 

1  00 

Cleaning  parlor  and  sleeping  cars,  exclusive 
of  bedding  per  car 

1.75 

Cleaning  vestibuled  passenger  and  combi- 
nation cars,  each 

1.00 

Coal  (including  labor)  per  ton 

6  00 

Cushions  and  backs  of  seats  of  passengei 
cars,  vestibule  or  common,  removing  and 
beatin01  per  car 

65 

Domes,  gas,  each 

.50 

Draperies,  seats,  carpets,  etc.,  parlor  and 
sleeping  cars,  removing  and  beating,  per 
car.  .  . 

1.00 

118 


MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Electric  current  for  charging  batteries   .  .  . 

At  cost. 

Electric    lighting    material,    incandescent 
bulbs,  fuses,  etc  

At  cost. 

Elnr  lumber,  per  foot           

03  1 

Forgings,  bolts  and  nuts,  per  Ib  

.03 

$0  OOf 

Fuses         

At  cost. 

Gas  bowls 

At  cost 

Gas  bulbs       

At  cost. 

Gas  mantels 

At  cost 

Gas,  Pintsch,  per  receiver         .... 

85 

Gas  tips  

At  cost. 

Glass,  per  light    

At  cost. 

Glass  setting  per  light. 

30 

Globes,  gas     

At  cost. 

Hickory  lumber,  per  ft  

.03£ 

Hose,  air  brake  or  signal,  complete  with 
fittings,  applied  to  car,  each: 
1"  signal  hose,  applied  

1  75 

If"  M.  C.  B.  Standard  hose,  applied.  .  . 

2.00 

Hose,  air  brake  or  signal,  credit  for  fittings. 

80 

Hose,  If,  straight  port,  steam,  complete 
with  fittings,  applied  to  car  
Hose,  as  above,  1|"  

6.50 
6  50 

Hose,  as  above,  1"  

5.00 

Hose,  as  above,  If  and  U",  credit  for  fit- 
tings   

5  25 

Hose,  as  above,  1",  credit  for  fittings 

4  00 

Ice  (including  labor),  per  cwt  

.30 

Incandescent  bulbs 

At  cost. 

Iron,  cast,  per  Ib  

.02 

.006 

Iron,  malleable,  per  Ib  

.03^ 

.00* 

Journal  bearings,  brass  or  bronze,  lined  or 
unl'.ned,  per  Ib.,  applied 

.18 

.13 

Journal  bearings,  cast  steel  or  malleable 
iron  back,  credit  for  scrap,  per  Ib 

04 

Journal  bearings,  filled  brass  or  bronze  shell, 
per  Ib.,  applied  
Journal  bearings.    Weights  to  be  charged 
and  credited  as  follows: 
7"  long  and  over,  but  not   8"  long  
8"  long  and  over,  but  not    9"  long.  
9"  long  and  over,  but  not  10"  long  
10"  long  and  over 

.14 

Lbs. 
10 
13 
20 
25 

.10 

Lbs. 
6 
8 
12 
15 

Labor  changing  wheels,  per  pair 

2  CO 

Labor,  on  lubrication  per  hour 

24 

Labor,  on  repairs,  per  nour 

.30 

Loss  of  metal  from  steel  or  steel-tiredwheels, 
per  1-16"       

1.50 

Lumber  (oak,  pine,  hickory,  poplar  and 
elm)  ,  per  ft  

.03£ 

Mantels,  gas 

At  cost. 

Nuts,  bolts  and  forgings,  per  Ib  

.03 

.OOf 

Oak  lumber,  per  ft  

.03^ 

119 


MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Oil  Galena  car  per  gallon         

$0  22 

Oil,  Galena,  coach,  per  gallon  

.35 

Oil  illuminating  American  roads,  per  gal 

.11 

Oil  illuminating  Canadian  roads  per  gal 

16 

Pine  lumber  per  ft             

.03-| 

Poplar  lumber  per  ft 

03| 

Removing,  turning  and  replacing  same,  pair 
steel-tired  wheels 

5  00 

Seat  backs  and  cushions  of  passenger  cars, 
either  vestibule  or   common,  removing 
and  beating  per  car               

.65 

Seats,  carpets,  draperies,  etc.,  parlor  and 
sleeping  cars,  removing  and  beating,  per 

1  00 

Shades  Acme  lamp  each                   

.45 

Shades  common  lamp  each 

25 

75 

Steam  hose,  If,  straight    port,    complete 

6  50 

Steam  hose,  H",  straight  port,  complete 

6  50 

Steam  hose,   1",  straight  port,  complete 

5  00 

Steam  hose   If  or  \\"  credit  for  fittings 

$5  25 

Steam  hose,  1",  credit  for  fittings  
Steel  castings  per  Ib 

6-U 

4.00 
OOf 

Steel,  spring  (not  springs),  per  Ib  
Taking  out  and  beating  cushions  and  backs 
of  seats  of  passenger  cars,  either  vestibule 
or  common  per  car 

.05 

65 

.OOJ 

(NOTE.  —  No    additional    charge    for 
cleaning  trucks  of  parlor  or  sleeping  cars.) 
Taking  out  carpets,  seats,  draperies,  etc., 
from  parlor  and  sleeping  cars  and  beating 
them,  per  car                       

1.00 

Tallow  per  Ib 

06 

Turning  steel-tired  wheels,  per  pair  
Waste  woolen  per  Ib                               ... 

1.50 
12£ 

Waste  cotton  per  Ib 

06 

Wicks  dual  each                               

00^ 

Wicks,  round,  each  

.02 

'::::::::: 

MATERIAL. 

NEW. 

SECOND- 
HAND. 

SCRAP. 

Wheel 

5  cast  36" 

$10  50 

$7.75 

$5.25 

Wheel 

3,  cast,  33"  

9.00 

7.00 

4.75 

120 


MATERIAL. 

CHARGE. 

CREDIT. 

Wheels,  labor  changing,  per  pair  
Wheels,  solid  steel  or  steel-tired    new  or 
re-tired  

$2.00 
At  cost. 

Wheels,  steel  or  steel-tired    loss  oi  metal 
from,  per  1-16"  

$1  50 

Wheels,  steel-tired,  removing,  turning  and 
replacing  same,  per  pair             

5  00 

Wheels,  steel-tired,  turning  per  pair 

1  50 

NOTE. — Cost  price  to  be  charged  for  material  no';  in  list  above 


121 


LIST  OF   RAILROAD   COMPANIES. 

The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  rail- 
road companies  which  have  given  notice  of  the 
adoption  of  the  Code  of  Rules  for  the  inter- 
change of  passenger  equipment  cars: 

Arms  Palace  Horse  Car  Co. 

Atlanta  &  Birmingham  Air  Line. 

Atlantic,  Valdosta  &  Western. 

Baltimore  &  Ohio. 

Bangor  &  Aroostook. 

Boston  &  Albany. 

Boston  &  Maine. 

Burlington,  Cedar  Rapids  &  Northern. 

Butte,  Anaconda  &  Pacific. 

Cairo,  Vincennes  &  Chicago. 

Canadian  Pacific. 

Carolina,  Clinchfield  &  Ohio. 

Central  of  Georgia. 

Central  Vermont. 

Chesapeake  &  Ohio. 

Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois. 

Chicago  &  Erie. 

Chicago  &  North  Western. 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Kansas  City. 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy. 

Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  Puget  Sound. 

Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul. 

Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific. 

Choctaw,  Oklahoma  &  Gulf. 

Cincinnati,  Hamilton  &  Dayton. 

Cincinnati,  New  Orleans  &  Texas  Pacific. 

Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis. 

Cleveland,  Lorain  &  Wheeling. 

Cleveland  Terminal  &  Valley. 

Colorado  &  Southern. 

Cornwall  &  Lebanon. 

Delaware,  Lack'awanna  &  Western. 

Denver  &  Rio  Grande. 

Detroit,  Toledo  &  Milwaukee. 

Detroit  &  Lima  Northern. 


122   ' 

Doniphan,  Kensett  &  Searcy. 

El  Paso  &  Southwestern. 

Erie. 

El  Paso  &  Southwestern  System. 

Evansville  &  Terre  Haute. 

Evansville  &  Indianapolis. 

Fitchburg. 

Florida  East  Coast. 

Fort  Worth  &  Denver  City. 

Golden  Circle. 

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana. 

Grand  Trunk. 

Grand  Trunk  Pacific. 

Green  Bay  &  Western. 

Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph. 

Hocking  Valley. 

Hutchison  &  Southern. 

Illinois  Central. 

Kanawha  &  Michigan. 

Kansas  City  Southern. 

Kansas  City,  St.  Joseph  &  Council  Bluffs. 

Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern. 

Lehigh  Valley. 

Louisiana  &  Arkansas. 

Manitoba  &  North-Western  Railway  of  Canada. 

Mason  City  &  Fort  Dodge. 

Michigan  Central. 

Midland  Valley. 

Minneapolis  &  St.  Louis. 

Mississippi  River  &  Bonne  Terre. 

Mississippi  River,  Hamburg  &  Western. 

Missouri  Pacific. 

Mobile  &  Birmingham. 

Nacozari. 

Nashville,  Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis. 

Nevada  Copper  Belt. 

New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River. 

New  York,  Ontario  &  Western. 

New  York  &  Ottawa. 

Northern  Pacific. 

Oregon  Railway  &  Navigation  Co. 

Pennsylvania,  Poughkeepsie  &  Boston. 


123 

Pere  Marquette. 

Philadelphia  &  Reading. 

Pittsburgh  &  Lake  Erie. 

Pittsburgh  &  Western. 

Plant  System. 

Rio  Grande,  Sierra  Madre  &  Pacific. 

Rio  Grande  Western. 

Rock  Island  &  Peoria. 

San  Antonio  &  Aransas  Pass. 

Seaboard  Air  Line. 

Sioux  City  &  Northern. 

Southern. 

Southern  Indiana. 

Southern  Pacific  Company. 

South  Florida. 

Southwestern  of  Arizona. 

Spokane  Falls  &  Northern. 

St.  Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul. 

St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern. 

St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  &  Colorado. 

St.  Louis,  Keokuk  &  North-Western. 

St.  Louis  Southwestern. 

St.  Louis  Southwestern  of  Texas. 

St.  Louis  &  Hannibal. 

Temiskaming  &  Northern  Ontario. 

Tennessee  Central. 

Texas  &  Pacific. 

Toledo  &  Ohio  Central. 

Toledo  &  Ohio  Central  Extension 

Toledo,  Columbus  &  Cincinnati. 

Trinity  &  Brazos  Valley. 

Tyler  South-Eastern. 

Union  Pacific. 

United  Counties. 

Vera  Cruz  &  Pacific. 

Wabash. 

West  Virginia  Central  &  Pittsburgh. 

Wheeling  &  Lake  Erie. 

Zanesville  &  Western. 


124 


INDEX 


Rule. 


Page. 


"A"   end   of   car 14 

Acceptance  of  code   of   rules. 130              78 

Adjustment   of    couplers    to    standard 

height 20              ii 

Air    brakes,    labor    charges    allowable 

for   repairs    in         61-68 

Air  brakes,  no  labor  charge  for  ad- 
justing    i 08  60 

Adjustment   of    height   of   couplers...  20               n 

Altering   height  of  coupler,   bill   for.  .  20               10 

Appendix  —  passenger-car   rules    ....  .  .     104-120 

Appraisement  of   damage   to    body  or 

trucks    119              75 

Arbitration     Committee,     appointment 

of    123              76 

Attaching  defect  and  repair  cards  to 

cars     I  ....  14                8 

Axles  and  wheels,   bills   for 97-99         45"49 

Axles  and  wheels,  prices  for 98              46 

Axles   and   wheels,   information  to   be 

specified  on  repair   cards 9                6 

Axles,  below  journal  limits,  removed, 

credit    for    99              49 

Axles,   bent   84              41 

Axles,   broken 85              41 

Axles,   collars  broken  or  worn  off.  .  .  85              41 

Axles,    cut  journals 84              41 

Axles,  fillets  worn  out 85     •         41 

Axles  for  cars  marked  "capacity"..  86              41 
Axles    for    cars    marked    "  maximum 

weight  "     86        41-42 

Axles  for  tank  cars 86              42 

Axles  of   limited    sizes,    responsibility 

for     28              1 8 

Axles  rendered  unsafe 84              41 

Axles,   seamy   journals 85              41 

Axles,  secondhand,  applied,  charge- 
able to  owners,  srze  of  ,  wheel 

seats    and   centers 29         18-19 

B 

"B"   end   of   car 14                8 

Bearings,  journal,  malleable,  or  steel- 
backed  filled,  non-use  of 19  1 1 

Bearings,  journal,  information  to  be 

specified  on  repair  cards 9  6 


125 


Rule.         Page. 


Billing,    instructions    for  ............       Qi-nS 

Billing  repair    card,    form  of  ........  83 

Billing   repair  card  required  .........  96  4b 

Billing  repair  card,  use  of  ..........  5 

Bills,    consolidated,    of    charges  ......  91  45 

Bills,   counter,   to  cover  errors  .......  91  45 

Bills  for  labor  only,  items  lost......  95  45 

Bills    for   materials    furnished,    prices 

allowable      ....................  101  49'52 

Bills,   forms  of:      Wheel  bill..  ......  ..  85,86 

Bills   less   than   25   cents  ............  91  43'44 

Bills  made  on   defect  cards,   cards  to 

accompany    bill   ................  96  45 

Bills,    rendering  of  .................  94  45 

Bills  returned  for  correction  ........  91  45 

Brake  beams,   lost,  bill  for  labor  only  95  45 
Brake  beams,  metal,  replaced,   credits 

for     .............  .............  104  53 

Brake   beams,    information   to   be    spe- 

cified on  repair  cards  ...........  9  6 

Brake   beams,   renewal  of  ...........  17  9 

Brake      hangers,      no      charge    when 

brake  beam  is   applied  .....  .....  no  61 

Brake  levers  and  guides,  lost,  bill  for 

labor   only    ......  ..............  95  45 

Brake  rods,  lost,  bill  for  labor  only..  95  45 
Brake  shoes  and  parts,  no  charge  for 

labor    ..  .......................  108  60 

Brake    shoes,    information    to    be    spe- 

cified  on   repair   card  ............  9  6 

Brake   shoes,    reinforced,   use   of  .....  17  9 

C 

Cap-acity  and  light  weight  to  be  sten- 

ciled  on    cars  ..................  86  42 

Capacity  limits  of  axles,   use  of  .....  29        18,  19 

Care  of   foreign  cars  ...............  i  2 

Carrier-iron  bolts,  labor   charge   for.  .  09  61 

Cars  destroyed  on  private  track  .....  -13  68 

Cars    destroyed,    rebuilding   of   either 

body    or    trucks  ................  14        68-69 

Cars  destroyed,   settlement   for.  .....     112-   19        68-75 

Cars  destroyed,   settlement  prices  for  16         7°'74 

Cars    equipped    with    metal    bolsters, 

prices    for    ....................  116  71 

Cars     equipped     with     metal     center 

sills,    prices    for  ................  116  71 

Cars  equipped  with  metal  draft  mem- 

bers,  prices    for  ..................  1  16  71 

Car  Service  Rule  No.    15,  Amer.   Ry. 

Assn  ......................... 

Cars    with    defects   violating    law    not 

to   be   offered    in   interchange....  2  3 


126 

Rule.          Page. 

Cast-iron  wheels,  prices  for 97  46 

Center  pins,  labor  charge   for no  61 

Chipped  flanges,   method   of   gauging.  .  .         35-37 
Cleaning  of  cars  before  reweighing.  .               34  20 
Combinations  of  defects  denoting  un- 
fair usage    37-42         22-23 

Composite   cars,  prices  for  repairs  of 

steel   parts 107  60 

Condition  of  cars  in  interchange....  2  3 

Correcting  or  rendering  bills 91  44 

Coupler,   height  of,   adjustment  of...  20  n 

Coupler,  M.  C.  B.,  complete,  missing, 
or  broken  knuckle  or  lock,  labor 

charge   for   replacing 109         60-6 1 

Coupler,  no  labor  charge  when  draft 

timbers    are    applied no  61 

Coupler  parts  to  be  specified  on  re- 
pair cards  9  6 

Coupler    parts,    M.     C.    B.,    replaced, 

charge   for 104  53 

Coupler,      uncoupling      arrangements 

operative    18  n 

Couplers  exceeding  distance  5^ 
inches  between  point,  of  knuckle 

and    guard    arm 18  10 

Couplers,  lost,  bills  for  labor  only...  95  45 

Couplers,    malleable,    non-use   of 19  u 

Couplers,    stem    attachment,    replaced 

with    pocket    attachment 17  10 

Couplers,  vertical  plane,  not  stand- 
ard, replaced  with  M.  C.  B. 

Standard    18  10 

Credits,   scrap,   weight  of,  allowable..  103  53 

Cross  bolts   for   splicing,   size   of 22  17 

Cypress,     use     of,     repairing     foreign 

cars     17  9 

D 

Damaged  and   worn-out  cars,  sending 

home 120-121  75 

Damages   denoting  unfair  usage 32-42         21-23 

Dead  block,  no  labor  charge no  61 

Defect  card,    form  of .  .  79 

Defect  cards,  attaching  to  cars 14  8 

Defect   cards,   duplicate 15  8 

Defect  cards  not  required  for  own- 
ers' defects,  except 'missing  mate- 
rial on  cars  in  interchange  or 
defective  air  brakes;  also  for 
improper  repairs  not  made  by 

delivering  company   4  4 

Defect  cards  not  required  for  dam- 
age so  slight  that  no  repairs  are 
necessary  32  21 


127 

Rule.         Page. 

Defect  cards  to  accompany  bills 94  45 

Defect  card,  use   of 4>  5  4»  5 

Defects    to   be   carefully    specified    on 

repair   card 9  6,  7 

Defects  to  be  noted  on  return  card.. 

Defects  which   may   be  repaired 16 

Delivering  companies'  responsibilities: 

Axles    84  41 

Bodies     32-42,  44,  45         21-23 

Brakes    53-5$       26,29 

Trucks    63-66        29,30 

Wheels 68-70         30-31 

Delivering    companies'     defects    must 

be   carded   in   interchange 2  3 

Depreciation    allowable     on    cars    de- 
stroyed       117         73-74 

Disputes,   settlement   of 123  76 

Doors,  side  and  end,  no  labor  charge 

for  applying  or  replacing 108  60 

Double-deck     stock     cars     destroyed, 

prices    for    116  71 

Draft  timbers  must  not  be  spliced...  12 

Duplicate   defect  and   repair  cards...  15 


Empty  cars  to  be  accepted  if  in  safe 
and   serviceable   condition 


Filled  journal  bearings 9  7 

Fir,  use  of,  repairing  foreign  cars.  . .  17  10 

Flat  spots,  method  of  gauging 35 

Foreign  cars  to  be  promptly  repaired  8,  9  89 
Foreign  car  repairs,  use  of  M.  C.  B. 

Standards  17  9 

Forged-steel  wheels,  prices  for 98  47 

Forged-steel  wheels,  loss  of  service 

metal  98  47 

Followers  lost,  bill  for  labor  only...  94  45 

Forms  of  splicing  for  sills .'.  22  12-17 

Friction  rollers,  labor  charge no  61 

Furnishing  materials  on  requisition..  122  75-76 


General    instructions    

Gray   iron    in   place   of  malleable,   M. 
C.    B.    Standards    


16-31 


8-20 
9 


Hand  rails,  bill  for  applying 

Height  of  couplers,  standard,   adjust- 
ment  of   » 

Home  card,  form  of 


ii 
87 


128 


Rule.  Page. 
Improper  repairs,  company  making 

same  responsible    ..............         87-90        42-43 

Improper  repairs  of  axles,  removal 

of    M.    C.    B.    Standards,    charge 

for     ..........................  99  49 

Information  to  be  specified  on  repair 

card     .........................  9  6 

Instructions  for  billing  .............       91-115         43-68 

Interchange  of  freight  cars  .........  3  3 

J 

Joint   evidence    ....................  12,  13  .  6,  7 

Joint  evidence  card,  form  of  ........  .  .  80-8  1 

Joint  evidence   card,  use  of  .........  12,  13  .   7,  8 

Joint    evidence,    what   constitutes  .....  12  6 

Journal    bearings,    filled  .............  u  7 

Journal  bearings,  malleable  or  steel- 

backed  filled,  non-use  of  ........  19  n 

Journal  bearings,  information  to  be 

specified  on  repair  cards  ........  9  6 

K 

Knuckles,    etc.,    no    charge    for    labor 

replacing    or   applying  ...........  108  60 

Knuckles,  open,   non-use   of  .........  19  n 

L 

Labor  allowable,  table  of  prices  for.  107  53-60 
Labor  charges  allowable  for  air- 

brake  repairs    .................  in  61-68 

Labor   charges   not   allowable  ........  no  61 

Labor  or  material  used,  no  percent- 

age    ..........................  106  53 

Lettering,  no   charge  to  be   made.  .  .  .  102  52 

Lever  guides  lost,  bill  for  labor  only  95  45 
Light  weight  and  capacity  to  be 

stenciled   on   cars  ...............  86  42 

Light  weight  of  car,  stenciling  of.  .  .  30  19 

Limits  of  sizes  of  axles  applied  .....  29  18,  19 

Limit  weight  of  tank  cars  ...........  86  42 

Loaded  cars,  acceptance  of,  in  inter- 

change   .......................  2  3 

Loss  of  service  metal,  rolled  or 

forged  steel  wheel,  prices  for...  98  46-49 


Malleable   couplers,    non-use  of  .....  ,  19 

Malleable    iron,    M.    C.    B.    Standards 

in  place  of  gray  iron  ...........  17 

Manufactured  articles,   charge    for...  105 


9 
53 


129 


Materials  for  repairs  of  foreign  cars, 
furnishing  of  ................. 

Materials  used,  repairing  foreign  cars, 
conforming  to  M.  C.  B.  specifi- 
cations ....................... 

Materials  used,  no  percentage  allowed 

Maximum   weight   limits,    use    of  ..... 

Metal  brake  beams  replaced,  credit 
for  ...............  .  .......... 

Metal   brake   beams,    use    of  ......... 


Rule. 


17 

106 

29 

104 
17 


Page. 
76 


9 

53 
19 

53 
9 


Non-use  of  malleable  couplers,  open 
knuckles  -and  malleable  or  steel- 
backed  filled  journal  bearings...  19  n 

O 

Oak,    vise    of,    in    repairs    to    foreign 

cars    ..........................  17  10 

Open    knuckles,    non-use    of  .........  19  n 

Owner's  responsibilities: 

Axles    ..........................  85-86  41.42 

Bodies    .........................  43»  48-52  22,  23 

Brakes    .......................  ;  .  59-6i  26,  29 

Trucks    .........................  67  30 

Wheels  ........  ......  .  ..........  71-82  31-40 

Owners  must   receive    their   own   cars 

home     ........................  2  3 

F» 

Paint  ,    mineral     and     lead,     amount 

chargeable    ....................  102  52 

Partial  repairs  of,  covered  by  defect 

card     .........................  6  4 

Passenger-car    rules    .............  .  .  .  .  104-120 

Pine,  use  of,  repairing  foreign  cars.  17  10 
Platform  plank,  applied,  no  labor 

charge     ......................  .  no  61 

Prices   allowable    for   labor  items....  07  53-6o 

Prices  allowable  for  materials  fur- 

nished  in   repairs  ...............  01  49-52 

Prices  for  cars  destroyed  ...........  16  7°-75 

8-  wheel    steel    ...................  16  72 

8-wheel   wood    ...................  16  70-72 

Trucks    .........................  16  73-74 

Prices  for  maintenance  of  passenger 

cars     .........................  ..  117-120 

Prices  for  repairs  of  steel  parts  of 

composite   cars    ................  107  60 

Prick-punching  of  wheel  seat  not 

allowed     ......................  26  18 

Putting  car  on  center  ..............  no  61 


130 

R 

Rule.         Page. 

Rebuilding  of  body  or  trucks  of  car 

destroyed  114,  115  68,  69 

Record  repair  card,  form  of ..  84 

Record  repair   card,   use   of 8  5 

Refrigerator  cars  destroyed,  settle- 
ment for  1 1 8  74 

Reinforced  brake  shoes,  use  of 17         9,  10 

Removing  load  to  make  repairs  to  be 

specified  on  repair  cards 9  6 

Removing  forged-steel  or  steel-tired 

wheels  97  47 

Repair   card,   attaching  to  car 14  8 

Repair   card,   billing,    required 91  44 

Repair  card,  information  to  be  speci- 
fied on  9  6 

Repair  card  must  state  kind  of  mate- 
rial applied  and  removed 17  9 

Repair   card,    use   of 7,  8,  9,  10,  u        5,  6,  7 

Pepair   cards,    duplicates 15  8 

Repair  cards,   forms  of .  .         82-84 

Repair  cards  to  show  actual  thick- 
ness of  metal  removed  from 
forged  or  rolled  steel  wheels.  .  .  -100  49 

Repairs,   improper,   responsibility   for.         87-90        4-3-43 

Repairs  of  any  kind  to  be  carded 

with  repair  card 7  5 

Repairs  of  foreign  cars  with  wrong 

materials 28  18 

Repairs  of  steel  parts  of  composite 

cars,  prices  for  labor 107  60 

Repairs  to  conform  to  original  con- 
structions    i 6  8-9 

Repairs  to  foreign  cars  to  be  made 

promptly  16  8-9 

Replacement  of  couplers,  stem,  with 

pocket  attachments  18  10 

Replacing  of  forged  or  rolled  steel  or 

steel-tired  wheels,  prices  for....  98  47 

Return  card,  form  of .  .  79 

Return    card,    use    of 2  3 

Return  of  cars  when  unloaded 2  3 

Return   of   trucks  from   car   destroyed  119  69 

Revision   of   rules 124-127  77 

Rolled-steel  wheels,  loss  of  service 

metal  98"  47 

Running   boards,    temporary 20        11,12 

Runing  boards,  temporary,  bill  for 

applying  21  11,12 

S 

Scrap  credits  allowable 103         52-53 

Secondhand  axles,  applied,  chargeable 

to     car     owners,     size     of     whe  >1 

seats   and   centers. ,  _  _  29        18,  19 


131 

Rule.  Page. 
Sending  home  worn-out  and  damaged 

cars  120-121  75 

Service  metal,  loss  of  from  forged  or 

rolled  steel  wheels 98  47-48 

Settlement  of  disputes 123  76-77 

Settlement  prices  for  cars  destroyed.  112-121  68-75 
Sheathing,  no  labor  charge  when  end 

plate   or  sill  or  side   sill  or  plate 

is  removed  . 1 10  61 

Shimming  wheel  fit  not  allowed....  26  18 

Sills,  splicing  of 22  12-17 

Size  of  cross  bolts  for  splicing 22  14 

Sizes  of  secondhand  axles  applied...  29  18,  19 

Special  stock  and  refrigerator  cars..  118  74 

Splicing  sills  22  12-17 

Springs,  coupler,  lost,  bill  for  labor 

only  95  45 

Standards,  M.  C.  B.,  use  of  in  re- 

F  airing   foreign   cars 17  9 
car   bodies  destroyed,   deprecia- 
tion   117  73-74 

Steel   parts  of   composite   cars,   prices 

for    repairs    of 107  60 

Steel  sills,   splicing  of 22  12-17 

Steel,    structural,    charge    for 101  52 

Steel    wheels,    rolled    or    forged,    loss 

of   service   metal 98  47-49 

Stenciling  light  weight   of  cars 30  19,  20 

Stenciling   of   cars   undergoing   heavy 

repairs    30  19-20 

Stock,    special,   cars,    settlement  for..  118  74 

Structural   steel,   charge  for 101  52 

X 

Tank   cars,    marking   of 86  42 

Tank  cars  destroyed,   depreciation  on  117         73-74 

Temporary  running  boards,  bill  for 

applying  21  11-12 

Terms  used  on  removal  of  wheels 

and  axles  10  7,8 

Thick  flanges,   method  of   gauging.  .  .  .  .  38 

Thickness  of  wheel  tread  to  be 

shown  on  repair  cards 10  7 

Triple  valves,  information  to  be  spe- 
cified on  repair  cards 9  6 

Trucks  destroyed,  prices  for  settle- 
ment    116  73 

Trucks   returned    from   car    destroyed.  115  69 

Trucks  with  steel  or  steel-tired 

wheels,  prices  for 116  73 

Turning  steel  or  steel-tired  wheels, 

prices  for  98  47 


132 


p 

Rule.  Page. 

Uncoupling  arrangements  of  coup- 
lers to  be  made  operative 18  n 

Use  of   defect  card 3,  4,  5,  6  4,  5 

Use  of  joint  evidence  card 12,  13  6,  f 

Use  of  M.  C.  B.  Standards  on  for- 
eign cars  17  9 

Use  of  repair  card 7,  10,  1 1  5,6,  7, 

10,    II 

Use   of   return    card 2  3 

W 

Weighing  and  stenciling  of  cars  un- 
dergoing heavy  repairs 30  19-20 

Weight,   light,    stenciling  of 30  19 

Weight     of     scrap     allowable,     when 

credited 103,  104  52,  53 

Wheel  seats  of  foreign  axles,  reduc- 
tion of  .  .- 27  1 8 

Wheels  and  axles,  bills  for 97,98  46-49 

Wheel  and  axle  bill,   form  of ..  85 

Wheels  and    axles,   prices   for 98  46 

Wheels   and  axles,   information   to  be 

specified  on  repair  cards 9  6 

Wheels,    brake    burn 71  31 

Wheels,  broken   flange 69  30 

Wheels,  broken  or  chipped  rim. 79  32 

Wheels,  burst 77  32 

Wheels,    chipped   flange 82  33 

Wheels,  cracked  or  broken  flange....  78  32 
Wheels,      cracked      tread,      plate      or 

brackets    80  33 

Wheels,   flat,    sliding 68  30 

Wheels,  loose  or  out  of  gauge 80,  81  33 

Wheels,  new,  mating  with  second- 
hand    25  1 8 

Wheels,  other  than  33-inch,  replace- 
ment of 23  17,18 

Wheels  out  of  gauge .         .  .  39,  40 

Wheels,    prick-punching   or    shimming 

wheel    fit    26  1 8 

Wheels    removed    from    arch    bar    or 

pedestal   trucks,   prices   for 97  46 

Wheels,  steel,  forged  or  rolled,  thick- 
ness of  tread  before  and  after 

tread   to  be   shown   on   bills 100  49 

Wheels,   same  circumference  on  sarme 

axle     24  1 8 

Wheels,   seams    72  31 

Wheels,    shelled-out     71  31 

Wheels,   thick    flanges 75  32 

Wheels,     thickness     of     tread     to     be 

shown   on   repair,  cards 10  7 


133 

Rule.  Page. 

Wheels,    tread    worn    hollow 76  32 

Wheels,  with  maximum  thick  flanges.  24  18 

Wheels,    worn    flanges 74  32 

W'heels,   worn   through    chill 73  31 

Wooden   car  bodies   destroyed,   depre- 
ciation     o 116  70-71 

Worn   flanges,  method   of  gauging.  .  .  . .  35,  36 
Worn-out  and  damaged  cars,  sending 

home     120,121  75 

Wrong    material,    repairs    of    foreign 

cars   with 28  18 

Y 

Yokes,  lost,  bill  for  labor  only 95  45 

Yellow  pine,  use  of,  on  foreign  cars.  17  10 


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